A woman has lived 99 years with a life-threatening illness and has never known – 04/09/2019

Rose Marie Bentley, of Oregon, United States, pbaded away at the age of 99 without being aware of a state putting her life at risk: his organs were in the wrong place.

Bentley died of natural causes and his body was transferred to the dissection lab of the University of Health and Sciences of Oregon, Portland, to be used as a practice by the students. What they did not know was that they were going to find something out of the ordinary.

A group of five young people gathered around the corpse, eager to explore the human body. The first thing they did was open the thoracic part to examine the heart and they had a surprise: it was missing the vena cava, one of the largest veins in the body that is normally on the right side.

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Disconcerted, they called the teachers and it turned out that it was not the only irregularity in the woman's body. Many veins that usually drain the liver and other parts of the thoracic cavity were missing or sprouted from an unusual place.

His right lung had only two lobes, instead of the standard three, while the right atrium of his heart was twice the normal size. "Instead of having the stomach left, which is normal, it has the right stomach," said Cameron Walker, professor of basic science in clinical anatomy at the university. . In addition, the spleen was on the right side instead of its normal appearance on the left side.

The condition that Bentley had occurred once every 22,000 births and calls Situs inversusA strange genetic malformation that can affect several organs and has a genetic character. It consists of misalignment of the organs inside the body, placing them on the opposite side.

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It is estimated that only 5 to 13% of children manage to survive until the age of 5, the case of Bentley is extremely strange, because he came to live nearly 100 years. "Bentley could be the oldest of people with this disease," they said in a statement.

Bentley was born in 1918 in Waldport, a small town on the Oregon coast, under the name of Rose Marie Phelps, a Fox 8 hairdresser and a volunteer nurse during the Second World War.

Despite his arthritis and chronic heartburn, he has never had any health problems. "We had no reason to think that it was so, she was still healthy and a great swimmer," said Ginger Robbins (76), her third child.

Without a doubt, the case of Bentley is already under study in the field of medicine and, in this sense, the University has indicated that his case "is 1 in 50 million."

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