Valvular heart disease is a rapidly growing cause of global cardiovascular morbidity and
mortality with diverse and evolving geographic distribution. The prevalence of rheumatic …

Health professionals are encouraged to take the ESC/EACTS Guidelines fully into account
when exercising their clinical judgment, as well as in the determination and the …

Abstract This International Consensus Classification and Nomenclature for the congenital
bicuspid aortic valve condition recognizes 3 types of bicuspid valves: 1. The fused type (right …

Philipp Blanke, MD, a Jonathan R. Weir-McCall, MBCHB, PHD, b Stephan Achenbach, MD,
c Victoria Delgado, MD, PHD, d Jörg Hausleiter, MD, e Hasan Jilaihawi, MD, f Mohamed …

After 15 years of successive randomized, controlled trials, indications for transcatheter aortic
valve replacement (TAVR) are rapidly expanding. In the coming years, this procedure could …

Background Bicuspid aortic stenosis accounts for almost 50% of patients undergoing
surgical aortic valve replacement in the younger patients. Expanding the indication of …

Importance Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) indications are expanding,
leading to an increasing number of patients with bicuspid aortic stenosis undergoing TAVR …

Abstract Background and Aims Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has become
the first choice to treat older patients with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis (AS). This study …

Background: Limited data exist about safety and efficacy of transcatheter aortic valve
replacement (TAVR) in patients with pure native aortic regurgitation (AR). Objectives: This …

Importance More than 40 million people are living with either mitral or aortic valve disease
worldwide, and more than 180 000 heart valve replacement surgeries are performed each …