Primary Spontaneous Pneumothorax In A Young Male Patient Mimicking Dextrocardia

Abstract

Dextrocardia is a rare clinical condition and usually accompanies with additional cardiac anomalies and ciliary dyskinesia syndromes. Intrathoracic space occupying pathologies can cause pseudodextrocardia. Herein we present a patient with pseudodextrocardia secondary to pneumothorax
Dextrocardia defines rightly positioned heart and its incidence ranges between 1/8,000–1/25,000. Patients with dextrocardia are classified into situs solitus, situs inversus and situs ambiguous according to the positioning of the visceral organs. Dextrocardia usually presents with additional cardiac anomalies especially in patients with situs solitus [1]. Pseudodextrocardia is a clinical condition that heart is dextroposed secondary to intrathoracic space occupying pathologies. There are two cases with pseudodextrocrdia in the literature one of which is due to bronchectasia and the other one ise due to diaphragmatic hernia [2,3]. Herein we present a young male patient with pseudodextrocardia due to spontaneous pneumothorax.

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