Cor Vasa 2022, 64(Suppl. 4):48-57
The year in cardiovascular medicine 2021: valvular heart disease
- 1 Department of Cardiology III-Adult Congenital and Valvular Heart Disease, University Hospital Muenster, Albert-Schweitzer-Campus 1, Building A1, Muenster 48149, Germany
- 2 Department of Cardiology, Bichat Hospital, APHP, Université de Paris, Paris, France
- 3 Division of Cardiology, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Canada
- 4 Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA
Received Date: 15 September 2021; Revision received Date: 15 October 2021; Accepted Date: 23 December 2021
Reproduced from: Baumgartner H, Iung B, Messika-Zeitoun D, Otto CM. The year in cardiovascular medicine 2021: valvular heart disease. Eur Heart J 2022;43:633–640, https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehab885, by permission of Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology.
Keywords: Valvular heart disease, Review, Aortic stenosis, Mitral regurgitation, Tricuspid regurgitation, Infective endocarditis, Prosthetic heart valve
Received: December 19, 2022; Accepted: December 19, 2022; Published: December 30, 2022 Show citation
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