731 F. Beyersdorf and A. Vahanian et al./European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
guidelines, which is freely available via the ESC and EACTS website and hosted on the EHJ …

Health professionals are encouraged to take the ESC/EACTS Guidelines fully into account
when exercising their clinical judgment, as well as in the determination and the …

Health professionals are encouraged to take the ESC/EACTS Guidelines fully into account
when exercising their clinical judgment, as well as in the determination and the …

After publication, dissemination of the message is of paramount importance. Pocket-sized
versions and personal digital assistant (PDA) downloadable versions are useful at the point …

An update of the existing European Society of Cardiology (ESC) guidelines, published in
2007 [1], was felt necessary for two main reasons. Firstly, new evidence has accumulated …

After publication, dissemination of the message is of paramount importance. Pocket-sized
versions and personal digital assistant (PDA) downloadable versions are useful at the point …

Valvular heart disease (VHD) is common and poses important challenges from the
standpoints of diagnosis and therapeutic management. Clinical practice guidelines have …

After publication, dissemination of the message is of paramount importance. Publication of
executive summaries and the production of pocket-sized and PDA-downloadable versions …

A passage under the title “Indications for intervention” should read,“women with low BSA,
TGFBR2 mutation, and severe extra-aortic features”, instead of “women with low BSA …

The recommendations listed in this document are, whenever possible, evidence based. An
extensive review was conducted on literature published through November 2012, and other …