Pocket Guidelines on Valvular Heart Disease

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Table of Content

• Introduction
• General comments
  • Concepts of Heart Team and Heart Valve Centre
  • Patient evaluation
  • Risk stratification
  • Patient related aspects
  • Local resources
  • Management of associated conditions
  • Endocarditis prophylaxis
  • Prophylaxis for rheumatic fever.
• Aortic regurgitation
  • Evaluation
  • Indications for intervention
  • Medical therapy
  • Serial testing
  • Special patient populations
• Aortic stenosis
  • Evaluation
  • Indications for intervention (SAVR or TAVI)
  • Medical therapy
  • 4 Serial testing
  • 5 Special patient populations
• Mitral regurgitation
  • Primary mitral regurgitation
  • Secondary mitral regurgitationMitral stenosis
    • Rheumatic mitral stenosis
    • Degenerative mitral stenosis with mitral annular calcification

• Tricuspid regurgitation
  • Evaluation
  • Indications for intervention
  • Medical therapy
• Tricuspid stenosis
  • Evaluation
  • Indications for intervention
  • Medical therapy
• Combined and multiple-valve diseases
• Prosthetic valves
  • Choice of prosthetic valve
  • Baseline assessment and follow-up
  • Antithrombotic management
  • Management of prosthetic valve dysfunction and complications
• Management during non-cardiac surgery
  • Preoperative evaluation
  • Specific valve lesions
  • Perioperative monitoring
• Management during pregnancy
  • Management before pregnancy
  • Management during pregnancy
• Supplementary data