{"id":92997,"date":"2019-07-01T23:44:41","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T06:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/wild-case-study-reveals-66-year-old-man-with-all-his-organs-on-the-wrong-side"},"modified":"2019-07-01T23:44:41","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T06:44:41","slug":"wild-case-study-reveals-66-year-old-man-with-all-his-organs-on-the-wrong-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/wild-case-study-reveals-66-year-old-man-with-all-his-organs-on-the-wrong-side","title":{"rendered":"Wild Case Study Reveals 66-Year-Old Man With All His Organs on The Wrong Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wild-case-study-reveals-66-year-old-man-with-all-his-organs-on-the-wrong-side2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For the latest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-british-traveller-returned-home-with-an-infection-only-seen-once-before-in-the-uk\">tale of the unexpected<\/a> from medical emergency rooms, we bring you the case of a 66-year-old man who turned up at the hospital complaining of a cough and chest pains.<\/p>\n<p>Soon enough, doctors realised the patient\u2019s internal organs were all on the wrong side of his body: his heart was on the right, liver on the left, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>This condition actually has a name, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Situs_inversus\">situs inversus totalis<\/a>, and it\u2019s not as life-changing as you might think at first. In fact, before we had modern medical scanning tools, it\u2019s thought most people who had this lived their lives without ever getting diagnosed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the latest tale of the unexpected from medical emergency rooms, we bring you the case of a 66-year-old man who turned up at the hospital complaining of a cough and chest pains. Soon enough, doctors realised the patient\u2019s internal organs were all on the wrong side of his body: his heart was on the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}