Transposition of the great arteries is a rare but serious congenital heart disease. Symptoms appear from birth, in which the two main arteries leaving the heart are reversed positions for each other.

Transposition of the great arteries is a rare congenital heart defect. Most babies will be detected and treated early by surgery in the first few months after birth.

Congenital heart disease is a malformation of the heart and large blood vessels caused by abnormalities in the fetus during the 2nd and 3rd months of pregnancy, at the time when large blood vessels are formed from the primitive heart ducts. The prevalence in the world is 1/1000 children. In which, transposition of the great arteries, also known as transposition of the great arteries, accounts for a high percentage (8%) of congenital heart diseases.