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Situs ambiguus

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Situs ambiguus or situs ambiguous, also known as heterotaxy or heterotaxia, is a rare congenital defect in which the major visceral organs are distributed abnormally within the chest and abdomen. [1]

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Asplenia

Asplenia refers to the absence of normal spleen function and is associated with some serious infection risks.

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Asplenia with cardiovascular anomalies

Asplenia with cardiovascular anomalies, also known as Ivemark syndrome and right atrial isomerism, is an example of a heterotaxy syndrome.

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Atrial septal defect

Atrial septal defect (ASD) is a heart defect in which blood flows between the atria (upper chambers) of the heart.

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Atrioventricular septal defect

Atrioventricular septal defect (AVSD) or atrioventricular canal defect (AVCD), also known as "common atrioventricular canal" (CAVC) or "endocardial cushion defect" (ECD), is characterized by a deficiency of the atrioventricular septum of the heart.

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Cecilia Lo

Cecilia W. Lo is a professor and the F. Sargent Cheever Chair of Developmental Biology at the University of Pittsburgh.

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Isolated congenital asplenia

Isolated congenital asplenia (ICAS) is a rare disease in humans that can cause life-threatening bacterial infections in children due to primary immunodeficiency.

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Jeremy (snail)

Jeremy was a left-coiled garden snail investigated by biologists.

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Kirsty Howard

Kirsty Ellen Howard (20 September 1995 – 24 October 2015) was an English woman, most notable for her charity work.

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List of diseases (H)

This is a list of diseases starting with the letter "H".

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List of genetic disorders

The following is a list of genetic disorders and if known, type of mutation and the chromosome involved.

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List of syndromes

This is an alphabetically-sorted list of medical syndromes.

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MacKinzie Kline

MacKinzie Kline (born March 30, 1992 in La Jolla, California) is an American female golfer who suffers from a heart defect known as heterotaxy syndrome as a result of being born with only one ventricle.

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NAA15

N-alpha-acetyltransferase 15, NatA auxiliary subunit also known as gastric cancer antigen Ga19 (GA19), NMDA receptor-regulated protein 1 (NARG1), and Tbdn100 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the NAA15 gene.

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Notochord homeobox (NOTO) gene

Homeobox protein notochord (NOTO) is a transcription factorThe UniProt Consortium; UniProt: the universal protein knowledgebase.

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Polysplenia

Polysplenia or Chaudhrey's disease is a congenital disease manifested by multiple small accessory spleens, rather than a single, full-sized, normal spleen.

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Primary ciliary dyskinesia

Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD), also called immotile ciliary syndrome or Kartagener syndrome, is a rare, ciliopathic, autosomal recessive genetic disorder that causes defects in the action of cilia lining the respiratory tract (lower and upper, sinuses, Eustachian tube, middle ear), fallopian tube, and flagella of sperm cells.

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SHROOM3

Protein shroom3 also known as shroom-related protein is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SHROOM3 gene.

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Situ

Situ or situs may refer to.

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Situs inversus

Situs inversus (also called situs transversus or oppositus) is a congenital condition in which the major visceral organs are reversed or mirrored from their normal positions.

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Situs solitus

Situs solitus is the normal position of thoracic and abdominal organs.

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ZIC3

ZIC3 is a member of the Zinc finger of the cerebellum (ZIC) protein family.

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Heterotaxia, Heterotaxia (generic term), Heterotaxy, Heterotaxy syndrome, Situs ambiguous.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situs_ambiguus

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