Fifty-year-old psychologist Dennis Deer's lungs were failing, scarred by a rare inflammatory condition called polymyositis. Despite carrying supplemental oxygen, the Cook County Commissioner for the ...

Situs inversus occurs when organs are reversed from their normal positions. Two Illinois patients have successfully undergone double-lung transplants after being born with "flipped organs." Cook ...

Surgeons at Chicago-based Northwestern Medicine have successfully performed double lung transplants on two patients with situs inversus, a rare condition in which patients’ organs in the chest and ...

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Affected populations: Approximately 1 in 10,000 people have situs inversus. Men are 1.5 times more likely than women to ...