Clinical Trial Design Principles and Endpoint Definitions for Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair and Replacement: Part 1: Clinical Trial Design Principles A Consensus Document from the Mitral Valve Academic Research Consortium

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 278-307

  Stone, Gregg W ^a   Vahanian, Alec S ^b   Adams, David H ^c   Abraham, William T ^d   Borer, Jeffrey S ^e   Bax, Jeroen J ^f   Schofer, Joachim ^g   Cutlip, Donald E ^h   Krucoff, Mitchell W ⁱ   Blackstone, Eugene H ^j   Généreux, Philippe ^a,k   Mack, Michael J ^l   Siegel, Robert J ^m   Grayburn, Paul A ^l   Enriquez Sarano, Maurice ⁿ   Lancellotti, Patrizio ^o   Filippatos, Gerasimos ^p   Kappetein, Arie Pieter ^q  

^a Department of Medicine   (United States)

^b BICHAT HOSPITAL   (France)

^c MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^d OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^g UNIVERSITY HEART CENTER HAMBURG   (Germany)

^h BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^j LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^k HÔPITAL DU SACRÉ COEUR DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^l BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^m CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

ⁿ MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^p NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^q ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

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Author keywords

heart failure; mitral regurgitation; mitral valve; valve intervention; valve surgery (or cardiac surgery)

Indexed keywords

ANNULOPLASTY RING; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CLINICAL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CONTROL GROUP; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE REGISTRY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; IMPLANTABLE CLIP; INTRACARDIAC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MITRAL VALVE PROSTHESIS; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE REPAIR; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; POSTMARKETING SURVEILLANCE; PRIMARY MITRAL REGURGITATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SAFETY; SECONDARY MITRAL REGURGITATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STUDY DESIGN; TRANSCATHETER MITRAL VALVE REPAIR; TRANSCATHETER MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALVULOPLASTY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; BIOASSAY; CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; DEVICES; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EUROPE; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; METHODOLOGY; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; UNITED STATES;

CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDPOINT DETERMINATION; EUROPE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; PATIENT SELECTION; PROGNOSIS; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES; VENTRICULAR REMODELING;

EID: 84937410219     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: 15583597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2015.05.046     Document Type: Review

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