Appendix
Listed below are selected references on valvular heart disease relevant to each chapter of this book.
Iung B., Baron G., Butchart E.G., Delahaye F., Gohlke-Barwolf C., Levang O.W., Tornos P., Vanoverschelde J.-L., Vermeer F., Boersma E., Ravaud P., Vahanian A. (2003) A prospective survey of patients with valvular heart disease in Europe: The Euro Heart Survey on Valvular Heart Disease. Eur. Heart J. 24(13):1231–1243. Ho S.Y. (2002) Anatomy of the mitral valve. Heart 88: 5–10.
Zoghbi W. (2003) Recommendations for evaluation of the severity of native valvular regurgitation with two-dimensional and Doppler echocardiography. J. Am. Soc. Echocardiogr. 16:777–802.[CrossRef] [Web of Science] [Medline] Eugenio P., Philippe P., Patrizio L., Jean Luc M., Robert O.B. (2009) The Emerging Role of Exercise Testing and Stress Echocardiography in Valvular Heart Disease. J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 54(24):2251–2260.
Iung B., Gohlke-Barwolf C., Tornos P., Tribouilloy C., Hall R., Butchart E., Vahanian A. Recommendations on the management of the asymptomatic patient with valvular heart disease. (2002) Eur. Heart J. 23(16):1253–1266. Rahimtoola S.H. (2003) Choice of prosthetic heart valve for adult patients. J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 41(6):893–904.
Vahanian A., Otto C.M. Risk stratification of patients with aortic stenosis. Eur. Heart J. 31(4)416–423. Rosenhek R., Zilberszac R., Schemper M., Czerny M., Mundigler G., Graf S., Bergler-Klein J., Grimm M., Gabriel H., Maurer G. Natural History of Very Severe Aortic Stenosis. Circulation 121(1) 151–156. Otto C. (2006) Valvular aortic stenosis: Disease severity and timing of intervention. J. Am Coll. Cardiol. 47: 2141–2151.
Choudhry N. (1999) Does this patient have aortic regurgitation? J. Am. Med. Assoc. 28:2231–2238. Maurer G. (2006) Aortic regurgitation. Heart 92:994–1000.
Chandrashekhar Y., Westaby S., Narula J. (2009) Mitral stenosis. Lancet 374(9697):1271–83.[CrossRef] [Web of Science] [Medline] Carabello B. (2005) Modern management of mitral stenosis. Circulation 11:432–437. Turgeman Y. (2003) Subvalvular apparatus in rheumatic mitral stenosis. Chest 12:1929–1936.
Di Salvo T.G., Acker M.A., Dec G.W, Byrne J.G. Mitral Valve Surgery in Advanced Heart Failure. J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 55(4):271–282. Enriquez-Sarano M. (2003) Mitral regurgitation: what causes the leakage is fundamental to the outcome of valve repair. Circulation 10:253–256. Griffin B. (2006) Timing of surgical intervention in chronic mitral regurgitation: is vigilance enough? Circulation 11:2169–2172. Irvine T. (2002) Assessment of mitral regurgitation. Heart supplement 88:11–19. Iung B. (2003) Management of ischaemic mitral regurgitation. Heart 89 (4): 459–464.
Waller B.F., Howard J., Fess S. Pathology of tricuspid valve stenosis and pure tricuspid regurgitation Part I. (1995) Clin. Cardiol. 18(2):97–102.
Antunes M.J. (2007) Management of tricuspid valve regurgitation. Heart 93:271–276.
Lurz P., Coats L., Khambadkone S., Nordmeyer J., Boudjemline Y., Schievano S., Muthurangu V., Lee T.Y., Parenzan G., Derrick G., Cullen S., Walker F., Tsang V., Deanfield J., Taylor A.M., Bonhoeffer P. (2008) Percutaneous Pulmonary Valve Implantation: Impact of Evolving Technology and Learning Curve on Clinical Outcome. Circulation 117(15):1964–1972.
Bouzas B., Kilner P.J., Gatzoulis M.A.(2005) Pulmonary regurgitation: not a benign lesion. Eur. Heart J. 26(5):433–439.
Verma S., Mesana T.G. (2009) Mitral-Valve Repair for Mitral-Valve Prolapse. N. Engl. J. Med. 361(23):2261–2269.[CrossRef] [Web of Science] [Medline] Di Salvo T.G., Acker M.A., Dec G.W., Byrne J.G. Mitral Valve Surgery in Advanced Heart Failure. J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 55(4):271–282. William A.Z., John B.C., Jean G.D., Elyse F., John S.G., Paul A.G., Bijoy K.K., Robert A.L., Gerald Ross M., Fletcher A.M., Satoshi N., Miguel A.Qo, Harry R., Rodriguez L.L., Madhav S., Alan D.W., Neil J.W., Miguel Z. (2009) Recommendations for Evaluation of Prosthetic Valves With Echocardiography and Doppler Ultrasound: A Report From the American Society of Echocardiography's Guidelines and Standards Committee and the Task Force on Prosthetic Valves. J. Am. Soc. Echocardiogr. 22(9):975–1014.[CrossRef] [Web of Science] [Medline]
Feldman T. (2005) Percutaneous mitral valve repair with the edge-to-edge technique - EVEREST trial. J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. 46:2134–2140.
Authors/Task Force Members, Poldermans D., Bax J.J., Boersma E., De Hert S., Eeckhout E., Fowkes G., Gorenek B., Hennerici M.G., Iung B., Kelm M., Kjeldsen K.P., Kristensen S.D., Lopez-Sendon J., Pelosi P., Philippe F., Pierard L., Ponikowski P., Schmid J.-P., Sellevold O.F.M., Sicari R., Van den Berghe G., Vermassen F., Additional Contributors, Hoeks S.E., Vanhorebeek I. (2009) ESC. Guidelines for pre-operative cardiac risk assessment and perioperative cardiac management in non-cardiac surgery: The Task Force for Preoperative Cardiac Risk Assessment and Perioperative Cardiac Management in Non-cardiac Surgery of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and endorsed by the European Society of Anaesthesiology (ESA). Eur Heart J. 30(22):2769–2812.
Stout K.K., Otto C.M. (2007) Pregnancy in women with valvular heart disease. Heart 93(5):552–558.
Prendergast B. (2002) Diagnosis of infective endocarditis. Brit. Med. J. 32:845–846. Prendergast B. (2006) The changing face of infective endocarditis. Heart 92:879–885.
