- Jul 2018
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On 2014 Jan 12, Brett Snodgrass commented:
Dear Authors,
Thank you very much for the excellent publication and acknowledging that the connections between the coronary arteries and left ventricle were not probably not veins.
These connections may represent the vessels of Wearn, which appear unusually prominent.
An applicable ICD9 code might be 746.85, coronary artery anomaly, as it may meet the clinical criteria for the definition of fistulae.
Referring to these arterial connections as Thebesian veins has caused me much confusion when I was trying to understand the simple relationship of pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum and the coronary arteriopathy seen in PAIVS. With the growth of social media, and electronic data storage, I think that we may now be able to address the diffuse distribution of ambiguous or misleading nomenclature that fills as least half of related publications.
Dr. Paul Lurie's plea for collaboration in this regard has motivated me to take several steps in an effort to try to help produce accurate, simple, precise anatomic nomenclature and include:
I collaborated with Elsevier to help get the article by Wearn et al. changed to open-access. http://bit.ly/JTWearn
I obtained the original article (through ArtRieve http://www.artrieve.com/) written by Thebesius and uploaded the first digital copy. http://bit.ly/Thebesius
I published or wrote in the American Journal of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Pathology, Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus, and directly E-mailed several authors that were publishing related content.
I have posted numerous PubMed Commons comments. I regret that they may not always be helpful to every user, but I echo Dr. Lurie’s plea for collaboration in this regard. The PubMed Commons commentary is a welcome means with significant potential to vastly improve the peer review process.
My aim is that researchers in the future will probably not need to read more than 30 articles before they realize that myocardial sinusoids indeed exist, they were defined by Wearn, and that Thebesian veins are not arteries.
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My opinion is that accurate anatomic terminology is a basic principle underlying good medical science, and I ask others to consider whether the aforementioned definitions are appropriate. If this comment is not helpful, please let me know how it might be improved.
Comments and suggestions are welcome.
Thank you very much.
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- Feb 2018
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europepmc.org europepmc.org
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On 2014 Jan 12, Brett Snodgrass commented:
Dear Authors,
Thank you very much for the excellent publication and acknowledging that the connections between the coronary arteries and left ventricle were not probably not veins.
These connections may represent the vessels of Wearn, which appear unusually prominent.
An applicable ICD9 code might be 746.85, coronary artery anomaly, as it may meet the clinical criteria for the definition of fistulae.
Referring to these arterial connections as Thebesian veins has caused me much confusion when I was trying to understand the simple relationship of pulmonary atresia with intact ventricular septum and the coronary arteriopathy seen in PAIVS. With the growth of social media, and electronic data storage, I think that we may now be able to address the diffuse distribution of ambiguous or misleading nomenclature that fills as least half of related publications.
Dr. Paul Lurie's plea for collaboration in this regard has motivated me to take several steps in an effort to try to help produce accurate, simple, precise anatomic nomenclature and include:
I collaborated with Elsevier to help get the article by Wearn et al. changed to open-access. http://bit.ly/JTWearn
I obtained the original article (through ArtRieve http://www.artrieve.com/) written by Thebesius and uploaded the first digital copy. http://bit.ly/Thebesius
I published or wrote in the American Journal of Cardiology, Cardiovascular Pathology, Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus, and directly E-mailed several authors that were publishing related content.
I have posted numerous PubMed Commons comments. I regret that they may not always be helpful to every user, but I echo Dr. Lurie’s plea for collaboration in this regard. The PubMed Commons commentary is a welcome means with significant potential to vastly improve the peer review process.
My aim is that researchers in the future will probably not need to read more than 30 articles before they realize that myocardial sinusoids indeed exist, they were defined by Wearn, and that Thebesian veins are not arteries.
Please see
My opinion is that accurate anatomic terminology is a basic principle underlying good medical science, and I ask others to consider whether the aforementioned definitions are appropriate. If this comment is not helpful, please let me know how it might be improved.
Comments and suggestions are welcome.
Thank you very much.
This comment, imported by Hypothesis from PubMed Commons, is licensed under CC BY.
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