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Clark’s classification of congenital heart disease
Posted in cardiology -congenital heart disease, tagged clark classification of congenital heart disease, classification of cono truncal defects anomaly on September 30, 2013| Leave a Comment »
Congenital heart disease (CHD) still constitute an significant subset in cardiology practice.The moment you ask how do you classify CHD to any cardiologist , the answer would come promptly as “cyanotic and acyanotic CHD “. Such is the power traditional clinical teaching .
There is a fundamental embryological and functional classification available put forth by Clark.It lifts our understanding about congenital heart disease to a different perspective. I wish,every cardiology fellow should know this.
Link to embryological classification of congenital heart disease .
A subset for cono-truncal anomalies is also available.
Reference
Clark EB. Mechanisms in the pathogenesis of congenital heart defects. In: Pierpont ME, Moller J, editors. The Genetics of Cardiovascular Disease. Boston, MA: Martinus-Nijoff; 1986. pp. 3–11.
