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 …

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has matured into a standard treatment option
for patients with severe symptomatic aortic valve stenosis (AS) across the whole spectrum 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 …

Purpose To assess the accuracy of aortic valve calcium (AVC), mitral annular calcium
(MAC), and coronary artery calcium (CAC) quantification and risk stratification using virtual …

Background Self-expanding transcatheter heart valves (THVs) are associated with better
echocardiographic hemodynamic performance than balloon-expandable THVs and are …

Valvular heart disease is common and its prevalence is rapidly increasing worldwide.
Effective medical therapies are insufficient and treatment was historically limited to the …

Background Both measured and predicted effective orifice area (EOA) indexed to the body
surface area (EOAi) have been suggested to define prosthesis-patient mismatch (PPM) in …

Abstract The True Infection Rate (TIR) in the whole population of each country and the
Infection Fatality Rate (IFR) for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) are unknown although …

Cerebrovascular events (CVE) are among the most feared complications of transcatheter
aortic valve replacement (TAVR). CVE appear difficult to predict due to their multifactorial …

Abstract Background The Valve-in-Valve International Data (VIVID) registry proposed a
simplified classification to assess the risk of coronary obstruction during valve-in-valve …