Unusual: lived up to 99 years with inverted organs

April 10, 2019

After the woman's death, they found that their viscera were in the wrong place.

Rose Marie Bentley is the name of the woman born in 1918 to Waldport, a small town located on the coast of Oregon, in States United.

She was the youngest daughter of four brothers and her profession was that of hairdresser. In addition, she was also a volunteer in the Second World War for one of the bodies help nurses.

He formed a family, had five children and finally Bentley died at the age of 99 from natural causes. However, his story changed after his death when, in the dissection lab of the University of health and science of Oregon, the doctors discovered a striking fact.

It is that the woman had suffered situs inversus, a genetic malformation that causes the inversion of most vital organs inside the body. The special condition occurs in 1 in 22,000 babies and it is badociated with severe conbad cardipathy, which because of heart defects, only 5% to 13% live beyond 5 years.

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according to Cameron Walker, professor at the university argued that "The chances of finding someone like her can be as low as one in 50 million", so he said, "I do not think any of us forget it, honestly."

"Instead of having a stomach on the left, which is normal, your stomach was right.His liver, which is located mostly to the right, was mostly left.His spleen was on the right side rather than the left side And then the rest of his digestive tract, the ascending colon, was also reversed. "revealed Walker.