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Heterotaxy syndrome: a case report* * Study developed at Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.

Heterotaxy syndrome is defined as an abnormal arrangement of some organs and vessels in association with dysmorphism. The authors describe the case of a patient with heterotaxy syndrome with poliesplenia incidentally diagnosed during imaging evaluation (computed tomography and small bowel barium study) of unrelated pathological condition.

Heterotaxy syndrome; Polysplenia; Disorders of intestinal rotation; Partial inferior vena cava agenesis; Dorsal pancreas agenesis


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