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2014 AHA/ACC Guideline for the Management of Patients With Valvular Heart Disease: Executive Summary: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines

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ACC/AHA Practice Guidelines
anticoagulation therapy
aortic regurgitation
aortic stenosis
bicuspid aortic valve
cardiac surgery
heart valves
infective endocarditis
mitral stenosis
mitral regurgitation
prosthetic valves
pulmonic regurgitation
pulmonic stenosis
transcatheter aortic valve replacement
tricuspid stenosis
tricuspid regurgitation
valvular heart disease

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Developed in Collaboration With the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, American Society of Echocardiography, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions, Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists, and Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Full-text guideline available at: J Am Coll Cardiol 2014;63:e57–185.

This document was approved by the American College of Cardiology Board of Trustees and the American Heart Association Science Advisory and Coordinating Committee in January 2014.

The American College of Cardiology requests that this document be cited as follows: Nishimura RA, Otto CM, Bonow RO, Carabello BA, Erwin JP III, Guyton RA, O'Gara PT, Ruiz CE, Skubas NJ, Sorajja P, Sundt TM III, Thomas JD. 2014 AHA/ACC guideline for the management of patients with valvular heart disease: executive summary: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines. J Am Coll Cardiol 2014;63:2438–88.

This article has been copublished in Circulation.

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