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Baby born with organs on wrong side of body
A baby girl was born in central China's Henan province with most of her organs in the opposite position of where they should have been, but she is in a good condition, state media said.
The location of the atriums and ventricles in her heart was also reversed.
Her lungs, stomach and liver were also not in the normal position, the report on the website run by the Henan Daily quoted doctors as saying.
Her stomach, which should lie on the left side, was on the right and her liver, supposed to be on the right, was on the left.
Normally a person's left lung has two parts and the right has three, but this was reversed in the Henan baby.
"I have never seen such a baby in China before," said Fan Taibing, a pediatrician from a provincial health hospital for women and children, adding he had only read about one other such case, which occurred overseas.
When the baby was born in Henan's capital Zhengzhou, her lips were purple and green and she was breathing rapidly. She grew slowly compared with other children and now weighs only five kilograms (11 pounds).
On October 29 doctors at the hospital performed a heart rectification operation to correct the malformations, which had caused the baby to be sick.
The operation did not harm her organs, which were functioning healthily, the report said.
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