Guidelines on the management of valvular heart disease: The task force on the management of valvular heart disease of the European society of cardiology

European Heart Journal

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 230-268

  Vahanian, Alec ^a,b   Baumgartner, Helmut ^a   Bax, Jeroen ^a   Butchart, Eric ^a   Dion, Robert ^a   Filippatos, Gerasimos ^a   Flachskampf, Frank ^a   Hall, Roger ^a   Lung, Bernard ^a   Kasprzak, Jaroslaw ^a   Nataf, Patrick ^a   Tornos, Pilar ^a   Torracca, Lucia ^a   Wenink, Arnold ^a  

^a Hôpital Bichat AP HP ^*

^b BICHAT HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; DIGITALIS; DIHYDROPYRIDINE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; DOBUTAMINE; DOPAMINE; ENALAPRIL; ERYTHROPOIETIN; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; HEPARIN; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; INOTROPIC AGENT; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; NITRATE; NITRIC ACID DERIVATIVE; NITROPRUSSIDE SODIUM; PHENPROCOUMON; SPIRONOLACTONE; UNINDEXED DRUG; VASODILATOR AGENT; VITAMIN K GROUP; WARFARIN;

ANAMNESIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; BALLOON DILATATION; BIOPROSTHESIS; BLEEDING; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CARDIOVERSION; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DELIVERY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS; ENDOLEAK; EXERCISE ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; GROWTH RETARDATION; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMOLYSIS; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG EDEMA; MITRAL VALVE COMMISSUROTOMY; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; NEWBORN DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; PREGNANCY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; REOPERATION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SCINTIANGIOGRAPHY; STRESS ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSLUMINAL VALVULOPLASTY; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; TRICUSPID VALVE STENOSIS; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

EID: 33847134400     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehl428     Document Type: Review

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