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99-Year-Old Lived With Her Organs Reversed and Nobody Knew

Rose Marie Bentley lived with a rare condition where most of her vital organs were reversed.

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In 2018, students of Oregon Health and Science University dissected a cadaver for their anatomy class only to find that most of the vital organs of the cadaver were reversed.

Rose Marie Bentley, a 99-year-old woman died in October 2017 of natural causes and donated her body to science. But little did she know that she suffered from a rare condition called Situs Inversus with Levocardia.

Bentley may probably be one of the oldest people who suffered from the condition. Besides chronic heartburn, Bentley did not experience any discomfort due to her transposed anatomy.

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