Sonny Criss

The Criss-Cross Heart

During infancy, the patient was diagnosed with a large VSD and underwent PA banding through a left thoracotomy at the age of 5 months. At the time of PA banding for this patient, two-dimensional echocardiography and MRI were not yet available, and the complex anatomy could not be detected as easily as it can be today. When he was 4 years old, he underwent a sternotomy to close the VSD. However,...

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Criss - cross heart Author : Doctor

Anatomy of a criss-cross heart.

To the Editor: We read with interest the article by Araoz et al1 and its description and beautiful three-dimensional (3D) images of a rare criss-cross heart. The 3D gadolinium-enhanced magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) images clearly demonstrate the complex anatomy, in particular the relationship between the crossed atrioventricular pathways. Based on the images presented, however, the assig...

CRISs, Thesauri and the Semantic Web

For the CRISs to be effective the notion of controlled vocabulary shared by a community is central. Structuring of controlled vocabularies, including taxonomies, thesauri and ontologies has been studied for many years. In this paper we shall investigate the use of one such method of defining controlled vocabularies; thesauri. We compare approaches which have been proposed for expressing such co...