An Introduction to the ESC Working Group on Development, Anatomy and Pathology

The articles and reviews in this inaugural edition of the Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease have been written by presenters at the 2013 Meeting of the European Society of Cardiology’s Working Group (WG) on Development, Anatomy and Pathology. The WG meeting provides an annual forum for researchers and clinicians interested in cardiac development and pathology to exchange expertise and present and debate new results, with the goal of furthering our understanding of the origins of congenital heart defects and cardiac pathology. Here we introduce the WG through a short account of the WG’s history and current activities.