The International Working Group unified two distinct nomenclature systems into the International Paediatric and Congenital Cardiac Code to classify functionally univentricular hearts.
The International Paediatric and Congenital Cardiac Code provides a unified nomenclature system for functionally univentricular hearts by crossmapping surgical and pediatric cardiology codes.
The nomenclature and classification of patients with a functionally univentricular heart has been debated for decades. We review here the approach taken for dealing with this group of patients by the International Working Group for Mapping and Coding of Nomenclatures for Paediatric and Congenital Cardiac Disease. We discuss the approach of this Nomenclature Working Group in the context of other historical and contemporary ideas about this topic.
Jacobs et al. (Tue,) conducted a review in Functionally univentricular heart. International Paediatric and Congenital Cardiac Code was evaluated. The International Working Group unified two distinct nomenclature systems into the International Paediatric and Congenital Cardiac Code to classify functionally univentricular hearts.