Aortic Valve and Ascending Aorta Guidelines for Management and Quality Measures: Executive Summary

• Published in: The Annals of thoracic surgery Vol. 95; no. 4; pp. 1491 - 1505
• Main Authors: Svensson, Lars G., Adams, David H., Bonow, Robert O., Kouchoukos, Nicholas T., Miller, D. Craig, O'Gara, Patrick T., Shahian, David M., Schaff, Hartzell V., Akins, Cary W., Bavaria, Joseph, Blackstone, Eugene H., David, Tirone E., Desai, Nimesh D., Dewey, Todd M., D'Agostino, Richard S., Gleason, Thomas G., Harrington, Katherine B., Kodali, Susheel, Kapadia, Samir, Leon, Martin B., Lima, Brian, Lytle, Bruce W., Mack, Michael J., Reece, T. Brett, Reiss, George R., Roselli, Eric, Smith, Craig R., Thourani, Vinod H., Tuzcu, E. Murat, Webb, John, Williams, Mathew R.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Netherlands Elsevier Inc 01.04.2013
• Subjects: Aorta, Thoracic - surgery; Aortic Valve - surgery; Cardiothoracic Surgery; Humans; Practice Guidelines as Topic; Quality Assurance, Health Care; Societies, Medical; Surgery; Thoracic Surgery - standards; Thoracic Surgical Procedures - standards; AATS; EF; FDA; 35; ACE; TTE; 26; MRI; CAD; LV; TAVR; AR; CT; AS; STS; TEE; BAV; AHA; ACCF; CABG; AVR; coronary artery disease; American College of Cardiology Foundation; magnetic resonance imaging; aortic valve replacement; ejection fraction; aortic stenosis; left ventricular; American Association for Thoracic Surgery; Food and Drug Administration; angiotensin-converting enzyme; computed tomography; transthoracic echocardiography; The Society of Thoracic Surgeons; American Heart Association; coronary artery bypass graft surgery; aortic regurgitation; balloon valvuloplasty; transcatheter aortic valve replacement; transesophageal echocardiography
• ISSN: 0003-4975; 1552-6259; 1552-6259
• DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2012.12.027

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Clinical Practice Guidelines are intended to assist physicians and other health care providers in clinical decision making by describing a range of generally acceptable approaches for the diagnosis, management, or prevention of specific diseases or conditions. These guidelines should not be considered inclusive of all proper methods of care or exclusive of other methods of care reasonably directed at obtaining the same results. Moreover, these guidelines are subject to change over time, without notice. The ultimate judgment regarding the care of a particular patient must be made by the physician in light of the individual circumstances presented by the patient.