Commentary: The rose continues to smell sweetly

[摘要] It is now almost 40 years that Anton Becker and I posed the question, when considering the morphology of the lesion now almost uniformly described as an atrioventricular septal defect, whether a rose by any other name would smell as sweet?1 As the group from Seattle Children's Hospital acknowledge, the phenotypic feature of the hearts in question is the commonality of the atrioventricular junction.2 They correctly point to the fact that this feature can properly be interpreted as retention of the embryonic atrioventricular canal.

[学科分类] 心脏病和心血管学