The woman "totally behind" died at 99 with her organs in the WRONG PLACE

The doctors revealed that a mother of five lived 99 years with a "totally backward" body.

Rose Marie Bentley, of Molalla, in northwestern Oregon, discovered a situs inversus with levocardia.

This caused the development of his liver, stomach and pancreas on the right side rather than their normal "left" position.

Ms. Bentley was unaware of her strange anatomy, her condition only being revealed after she donated her body for medical research.

The mother of five – who died in October 2017 – would be the oldest person with this disorder. Doctors say that the chances of surviving beyond childhood are as low as one in 50 million.

Although most patients die from heart failure, Ms. Bentley's family claims that she led a healthy lifestyle, her only problems being arthritis and acid reflux.

Medical students discovered Ms. Bentley's state of health last March after she donated her body to the donations program at Oregon Health & Science University.

Cam Walker, Assistant Professor of Anatomy at the University's Anatomic Services Center, said, "I knew something was going well, but it took us a while to understand how it was prepared.

"I think the odds of finding another person like her can be as low as one in 50 million. I think that none of us will ever forget it, honestly.

Medical students were instructed to evaluate the hearts of corpses.

Those who examined Ms. Bentley quickly realized that she was "missing" from her inferior vena cava – the large vein that carries deoxygenated blood from the lower body to the heart to "catch" the baby. # 39; oxygen.

After calling their professors, student Warren Nielsen – who is now in his second year of medicine – said: "It's at that point that the hubbub started.

"They are like" oh, my God, it's totally backwards! ".

After further inspection, the doctors noticed that Ms. Bentley's abdominal organs looked like a mirror image.

"Instead of having the left stomach, which is normal, she has the stomach right," Professor Walker told CNN.

& # 39; His liver, which lies mostly to the right, was mostly left.

& # 39; His spleen was on the right side instead of his normal appearance on the left side. & # 39;

And that was not the end of Ms. Bentley's anatomical abnormalities.

His inferior vena cava was not lacking, but was heading to the left of his vertebrae rather than to the right.

Veins that usually spill into the liver or chest were absent or in an unusual place.

His right lung had only two lobes rather than three. And the right atrium of his heart was twice his normal size.

Situs inversus with levocardia affects one in 22,000 births. Most patients have life-threatening cardiac malformations.

Ms. Bentley did not suffer from any cardiovascular problems, which scientists attribute to her long life.

When the heart is "reflected" like the rest of the abdominal organs, a patient is generally well.

But when the heart is the only organ not to change its position – as in the case of Mrs. Bentley – the affected fetus usually develops abnormalities that lead to heart failure later in life.

Prior to Ms. Bentley, there were only two known cases where patients had reached the age of seventy.

Speaking of the exam, Mr. Nielsen, then 26, said: "It was pretty amazing.

"We were able to learn not only the normal anatomy, but also all the anatomical variations that can occur.

"I learned to understand how she was able to live as long as she did. That made me wonder who she was.

This experience gave me an eagerness to take care of patients and to be able to apply what I learned from her.

A poster on Mrs. Bentley's condition was presented at the annual meeting of the American Association of Anatomists in 2019, at Experimental Biology, in Orlando.

She and her husband James – who died from pneumonia 13 years earlier – decided to donate their bodies to OHSU after reading a poignant poem about the memory of our loved ones after their deaths.

I will live forever from Robert Test: "Give my sight to the man who has never seen a sunrise, a baby face or a love in the eyes of a woman.

"Give my blood to the teenager who has been removed from the debris of his car so that he can live and see his grandchildren play.

& # 39; Gives my kidneys to one who depends on a machine to exist from week to week. & # 39;

It ends with the following line: "If you do all that I asked, I will live forever".

Their family read the same poem at the OHSU Gratitude Service in December 2018, thanking the donors and their families for their selfless act.

Bentley, born Phelps, was born in 1918 in the small coastal town of Waldport, Oregon.

Ms. Bentley, the youngest of four children, confessed that she was spoiled, according to her eldest child, Patti Helmig, 78 years old.

Ms. Bentley trained as a hairdresser and volunteered as a nurse during the Second World War.

The "excellent swimmer" was very active and often took her children to camp and fish, according to her third child, Ginger Robbins, 76 years old.

Ms. Bentley – who lived in the rural town of Molalla, in northwestern Oregon – has her gallbladder, appendix and uterus removed during her lifetime.

However, the doctors never found it. But a surgeon noted that his appendix was in an unusual place in their notes.

She and her husband owned and operated the Bentley Food Store, which sold farm and pet supplies.

The couple traveled to all 50 states and traveled outside the United States after retiring in 1980.

Until her death, Ms. Bentley attended the Molalla United Methodist Church, where she sang in a choir and taught Sunday School.

She was also a passionate gardener and grew vegetables to feed her big family.

Ms. Bentley's fourth child, Louise Allee, 66, added, "My mother would think it's too cool.

"She would be tickled in pink to be able to teach something like that.

& # 39; She would probably have a big smile, knowing that she was different, but succeeded.