Jagat Narula a, 1, Y. Chandrashekhar b, 1, Amir Ahmadi a, Suhny Abbara c, Daniel S.
Berman d, Ron Blankstein e, Jonathon Leipsic f, David Newby g, Edward D. Nicol h, Koen …

Background Over the past two decades, minimally invasive techniques for classic heart
valve surgery and isolated bypass surgery have been developed that enable access to the …

The “Guidelines on the Management of Valvular Heart Disease” were initially published as
the “Guidelines on Non-pharmacological Treatment of Valvular Heart Disease” in 2002 …

Multimodality imaging plays a pivotal role in the evaluation and management of infective
endocarditis (IE)—a condition with high morbidity and mortality. The diagnosis of IE is …

Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has evolved to standard treatment of severe
aortic stenosis in patients with an intermediate to high surgical risk. Computed tomography …

Objective This study was conducted to evaluate the prevalence of significant coronary artery
disease (CAD) in patients with severe valvular heart disease (VHD) and the association …

There is increasing evidence on the utility of cardiac computed tomography (CCT) in
infective endocarditis (IE) to investigate the valvular pathology, the extra-cardiac …

Objective To systematically evaluate the reproducibility of primary data and, the
reproducibility and correctness of pooled sensitivity and specificity estimates reported in a …

Objective Aortic valve calcification (AVC) and coronary artery calcification (CAC) are
predictors of cardiovascular disease (CVD), presumably sharing risk factors. Our objectives …

Background: The prevalence of coronary artery disease (CAD) in valvular patients is similar
to that of the general population, with the usual association with traditional risk factors …