Guidelines on the management of valvular heart disease (version 2012)
Authors/Task Force Members(Université Paris Cité), Alec Vahanian(IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele), Ottavio Alfieri(Université Paris Cité), Felicita Andreotti(San Raffaele University of Rome), Manuel J. Antunes(San Raffaele University of Rome), Gonzalo Barón‐Esquivias(San Raffaele University of Rome), Helmut Baumgartner(IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele), Michael A. Borger(San Raffaele University of Rome), Thierry Carrel(IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele), Michele De Bonis(Université Paris Cité), Arturo Evangelista(University of Liège), Volkmar Falk(Université Paris Cité), Bernard Iung(University of Liège), Patrizio Lancellotti(University of Liège), Luc Piérard(San Raffaele University of Rome), Susanna Price(San Raffaele University of Rome), Hans‐Joachim Schäfers(San Raffaele University of Rome), Gerhard Schüler(San Raffaele University of Rome), J Stepińska(San Raffaele University of Rome), Karl Swedberg(San Raffaele University of Rome), Johanna J.M. Takkenberg(San Raffaele University of Rome), Ulrich Otto Von Oppell(San Raffaele University of Rome), Stephan Windecker(University of Liège), José Luis Zamorano, Marian Zembala(San Raffaele University of Rome), Jeroen J. Bax(San Raffaele University of Rome), Helmut Baumgartner, Claudio Ceconi, Verónica Dean, Christi Deaton, Robert Fagard, Christian Funck‐Brentano, David Hasdai, Arno W. Hoes, Paulus Kirchhof, Juhani Knuuti, Philippe Kolh, Theresa A. McDonagh, Cyril Moulin(San Raffaele University of Rome), Bogdan A. Popescu, Željko Reiner, Udo Sechtem, Per Anton Sirnes, Michał Tendera(San Raffaele University of Rome), Adam Torbicki(Université Paris Cité), Alec Vahanian(San Raffaele University of Rome), Stephan Windecker(San Raffaele University of Rome), Document Reviewers:, Bogdan A. Popescu, Ludwig von Segesser, Luigi P. Badano(San Raffaele University of Rome), Matjaž Bunc, Marc J. Claeys, Nikša Drinković, Gerasimos Filippatos(San Raffaele University of Rome), Gilbert Habib(San Raffaele University of Rome), A. Pieter Kappetein, Roland Kassab, Gregory Y.H. Lip, Neil Moat(San Raffaele University of Rome), Georg Nickenig, Catherine M Otto, John Pepper(San Raffaele University of Rome), Nicolò Piazza, Petronella G. Pieper, Raphaël Rosenhek, Naltin Shuka(San Raffaele University of Rome), Ehud Schwammenthal, Juerg Schwitter, Pilar Tornos Mas, Pedro T. Trindade, Thomas Walther
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Abstract
The ESC/EACTS Guidelines represent the views of the ESC and the EACTS and were arrived at after careful consideration of the available evidence at the time they were written. Health professionals are encouraged to take them fully into account when exercising their clinical judgement. The guidelines do not, however, override the individual responsibility of health professionals to make appropriate decisions in the circumstances of the individual patients, in consultation with that patient and, where appropriate and necessary, the patient's guardian or carer. It is also the health professional's responsibility to verify the rules and regulations applicable to drugs and devices at the time of prescription.
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