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InternationalWorkingGroupforMappingand
CodingofNomenclaturesforPaediatricand
CongenitalHeartDisease.Itdiscussesthe
evolutionofnomenclatureandsurgical
treatmentforthespectrumoflesionsmakingup
thehypoplasticleftheartsyndromeandrelated
malformations.Associatedcodesfordiagnoses
andproceduresarealsopresented..
VanPraaghR,DavidI,WrightGB,VanPraaghS.
LargeRVplussmallLVisnotsinglelv.
Circulation.1980;61:1057–1058.
Itwasthislettertotheeditorthatidentifieda
crucialflawintheapproachtakenbythe
Europeanschoolinanalyzingpatientswith
allegedly“singleventricles”or“univentricular
hearts.”TheBostonianspointedoutthatitwas
philosophicallyunsoundtobasedefinitionsofa
givenstructureononeofitspartsthatwas
variable.Instead,theyestablishedthecrucial
principleofthe“morphologicmethod,”stating
thatthestructuresmustbeidentifiedonthebasis
oftheirmostconstantcomponents.Itwasthis
concept,inturn,whichrevealedthatalmostall
heartswithadouble-inletventriclewere
functionallybutnotanatomicallyuniventricular..
VanPraaghR,OngleyPA,SwanHJC.Anatomic
typeofsingleorcommonventricleinman.
Morphologicandgeometricaspectsof60
necropsiedcases.AmJCardiol.1964;13:367–