Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in women. Decades of grassroots
campaigns have helped to raise awareness about the impact of cardiovascular disease in …

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 …

Importance Bioprosthetic mitral valves are implanted with increasing frequency but
inevitably degenerate, leading to heart failure. Reoperation is associated with high morbidity …

Abstract Objectives: The BASILICA (Bioprosthetic or native Aortic Scallop Intentional
Laceration to prevent Iatrogenic Coronary Artery obstruction during TAVR) investigational …

Background: Transcatheter mitral valve replacement using aortic transcatheter heart valves
has recently become an alternative for patients with degenerated mitral bioprostheses, failed …

Background: Mitral valve-in-valve (ViV) and valve-in-ring (ViR) are alternatives to surgical
reoperation in patients with recurrent mitral valve failure after previous surgical valve repair …

Blood-contacting medical devices are an integral part of modern medicine. Such devices
may be used for only a few hours or may be implanted for life. Despite advances in …

Background: Left ventricular outflow tract (LVOT) obstruction is a leading cause of mortality
and exclusion from transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR). Intentional laceration of …

731 F. Beyersdorf and A. Vahanian et al./European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
guidelines, which is freely available via the ESC and EACTS website and hosted on the EHJ …

Radiation-associated cardiac disease, a heterogeneous and complex disease, manifests
years or even decades following radiation exposure to the chest. It is associated with a …