What Is Congenitally Corrected Transposition?

Abstract

For the physician who is not a pediatric cardiologist, ordinary transposition of the great arteries may seem mysterious enough, but "congenitally corrected transposition" is a "triple whammy" that perhaps means virtually nothing to anybody — except congenital heart buffs. So what is it? Briefly, congenitally corrected transposition refers to malformations of the ventricles and great arteries characterized by ventricular discordance with transposition of the great arteries. Ventricular discordance indicates that the ventricles do not correspond to the atria. In corrected transposition with situs solitus (normal locations) of the viscera and atria, the ventricles are inverted; with situs inversus of the . . .