Moving heart ... The Xray shows how the heart moved 90 degrees. Source: Supplied
A MAN survived a motorcycle accident but he left doctors shocked when they went to check his heart only to find it was no longer on the left side of his body.
The New England Journal of Medicine says emergency department doctors who treated the 48-year-old were left scratching their heads when they went to check his heart rate and rhythms. They ordered an X-ray and CAT scan which showed that his heart had turned 90 degrees to the right.
"This is a very interesting anatomical finding, and it's very unusual," Dr Gregory Fontana, of New York's Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, who wasn't involved in the case, told Live Science . "I had never seen anything like it. What's unique about this case is the way the heart rotated so far in the other direction, and the patient was still awake and alert."
Doctors say his heart didn't twist violently during the accident, ad first thought, but that an injury to the man's lungs had caused a build of air pressure in his chest and resulted in his heart turning to the right.
Once doctors removed the air pressure his heart returned to its original position.
"The structures in the back of the heart, and the big arteries, are fixed to the spine and to the tissue, but the heart kind of floats around in the sac around it," Dr Fontana said. "It's possible that some looseness in the sac or an injury to the sac around the heart allowed the mobile part of the heart to rotate on the fixed parts and end up on the wrong side of the chest."
Having his heart to the right blocked some blood vessels which caused the man's blood pressure to drop. He suffered punctured lungs, broken ribs and a ruptured spleen but managed to survive the ordeal.
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