Stephen Rayhill, MD, knew he was in for a challenge even before his patient made the liver transplant list. Her primary biliary cirrhosis wasn't the problem -- it was her anatomy. "When I saw we were going to list her, I thought, 'How are you going to hook that up?' " the Portland, Ore., transplant surgeon recalled. Apparently normal in every other way, the position of the 53-year-old woman's organs were transposed: liver on the left, heart on the right. Like roughly one person in every 10,000, she was born with situs inversus. 

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Dr. Rayhill is an Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery.