[Congenitally corrected transposition of the great vessels throughout ventricular inversion (author's transl)].

Congenitally corrected transposition of the great vessels is a cardiac anomaly in which the pulmonary artery and the aorta are transposed in relation to one another but in which the flow of blood is maintained in the physiologic direction. In this condition there is a concomitant inversion of the ventricular chambers. 8 patients--5 adults and 3 children--with this condition have been reviewed with special attention to clinical symptoms and electrocardiographic and roent-genologic features. The anomaly is of importance because it is much more common than formerly believed. Frequently associated cardiac defects are correctable by surgical procedures. Therefore a preoperatively firmly established disgnosis is necessary by angiocardiography and heart catheterization.