Left isomerism

Definition

A congenital cardiovascular malformation that is a variant of an heterotaxy syndrome in which some paired structures on opposite sides of the left-right axis of the body are symmetrical mirror images of each other, and have the morphology of the normal left-sided structures.

Also indexed as

Nearby in Structural developmental anomaly of heart or great vessels

• LA80Anomalous position-orientation of heart
• LA81Abnormal ventricular relationships
• LA82Total mirror imagery
• LA83Right isomerism
• LA85Congenital anomaly of an atrioventricular or ventriculo-arterial connection
• LA86Congenital anomaly of mediastinal vein
• LA87Congenital anomaly of an atrioventricular valve or atrioventricular septum
• LA88Congenital anomaly of a ventricle or the ventricular septum