'My mom would think this was so cool,' said the daughter of the woman who died not knowing of her rare condition.
A 99-year-old woman who died not knowing that her organs grew on the wrong side of her body was thought to be the oldest person to survive with this rare congenital condition.
The animal feed store owner, who died in the fall of 2017 at the age of 99, had donated her body to the Oregon Health and Science University Anatomical Services Center. Dr. Cam Walker, an assistant professor of anatomy in the OHSU Anatomical Services Center who worked on the case, believes Bentley survived longer than any other person with the condition, as the chance of living into adulthood is 1 in 50 million. Scientists know of two other cases where patients lived to see the age of 70.
The condition affects only about one in 22,000 people. Scientists aren’t sure what causes situs inversus, although some cases appear to have been inherited. Situs inversus can cause such problems as heart defects in 5 to 10 percent of patients.
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