Contemporary Presentation and Management of Valvular Heart Disease: The EURObservational Research Programme Valvular Heart Disease II Survey

• Published in: Circulation (New York, N.Y.) Vol. 140; no. 14; pp. 1156 - 1169
• Main Authors: Iung, Bernard, Delgado, Victoria, Rosenhek, Raphael, Price, Susanna, Prendergast, Bernard, Wendler, Olaf, De Bonis, Michele, Tribouilloy, Christophe, Evangelista, Arturo, Bogachev-Prokophiev, Alexander, Apor, Astrid, Ince, Hüseyin, Laroche, Cécile, Popescu, Bogdan A., Piérard, Luc, Haude, Michael, Hindricks, Gerhard, Ruschitzka, Frank, Windecker, Stefan, Bax, Jeroen J., Maggioni, Aldo, Vahanian, Alec, Goda, Artan, Mascherbauer, Julia, Samadov, Fuad, Pasquet, Agnes, Linhartova, Katerina, Ihlemann, Nikolaj, Abdelhamid, Magdy, Saraste, Antti, Kostovska, Elizabeta Srbinovska, Bajraktari, Gani, Mirrakhimov, Erkin, Erglis, Andrejs, Mizariene, Vaida, Cassar, Daniela, Tomkiewicz-Pajak, Lidia, Ribeiras, Regina, Beleslin, Branko, Simkova, Iveta, Dogan, Sait Mesut, Rahman-Haley, Shelley
• Format: Journal Article Web Resource
• Language: English
• Published: United States by the American College of Cardiology Foundation and the American Heart Association, Inc 01.10.2019; American Heart Association; Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
• Subjects: Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Cardiologists/trends; Cardiovascular & respiratory systems; Clinical Decision-Making; echocardiography; Europe/epidemiology; Female; Guideline Adherence/trends; guidelines as topic; Health Care Surveys; Healthcare Disparities/trends; heart valve diseases; Heart Valve Diseases/diagnosis/epidemiology/therapy; Human health sciences; Humans; Life Sciences; Male; Middle Aged; Practice Guidelines as Topic; Practice Patterns, Physicians'/trends; Prospective Studies; Referral and Consultation/trends; Sciences de la santé humaine; Systèmes cardiovasculaire & respiratoire; Time Factors; Time-to-Treatment/trends; transcatheter aortic valve replacement; guidelines; valvular heart disease; valvular surgery; transcatheter interventions; transcatheter aortic valve replacement; heart valve diseases; guidelines as topic; echocardiography

BACKGROUND:Valvular heart disease (VHD) is an important cause of mortality and morbidity and has been subject to important changes in management. The VHD II survey was designed by the EURObservational Research Programme of the European Society of Cardiology to analyze actual management of VHD and to...