Baby has organs on opposite side
(China Daily)
Updated: 2004-02-20 16:22

An eight-month-old baby girl in Jianli of Hubei Province has a peculiar condition: all the organs are located on the opposite side, Chutian Jinbao Newspaper reports.

Wan, the baby's mother, was surprised to find the baby's heart beating on the right side of the chest last month; and at Peking Union Medical College Hospital, doctors last week found that besides her heart, the liver and spleen also located the "wrong" side.

Her condition is rare but following surgery on her heart to fix a coin-sized hole, the baby could lead a normal life, a doctor said.

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