Classification of Ventricular Septal Defects for the Eleventh Iteration of the International Classification of Diseases – Striving for Consensus: A report from the International Society for Nomenclature of Paediatric and Congenital Heart Disease

Publication date: Available online 19 July 2018Source: The Annals of Thoracic SurgeryAuthor(s): Leo Lopez, Lucile Houyel, Steven D. Colan, Robert H. Anderson, Marie J. Béland, Vera D. Aiello, Frederique Bailliard, Meryl S. Cohen, Jeffrey P. Jacobs, Hiromi Kurosawa, Stephen P. Sanders, Henry L. Walters, Paul M. Weinberg, Jeffrey R. Boris, Andrew C. Cook, Adrian Crucean, Allen D. Everett, J. William Gaynor, Jorge Giroud, Kristine J. GuleserianAbstractThe definition and classification of ventricular septal defects have been fraught with controversy. The International Society for Nomenclature of Paediatric and Congenital Heart Disease is a group of international specialists in pediatric cardiology, cardiac surgery, cardiac morphology, and cardiac pathology that has met annually for the past nine years in an effort to unify by consensus the divergent approaches to describe ventricular septal defects. These efforts have culminated in acceptance of the classification system by the World Health Organization into the 11th Iteration of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11). The scheme to categorize a ventricular septal defect utilizes both its location and the structures along its borders, thereby bridging the two most popular and disparate classification approaches and providing a common language for describing each phenotype. Although the first-order terms are based on the geographic categories of central perimembranous, inlet, trabecular muscular, and outlet defects...
Source: The Annals of Thoracic Surgery - Category: Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery Source Type: research