Dedicated heart valve networks for improving the outcome of patients with valvular heart disease?

Sylvestre Marechaux (1) , Pierre-Vladimir Ennezat (2) , Raphaelle Ashley Guerbaai , André Vincentelli (3) , Franck Levy (4) , Christophe Tribouilloy (5, 6)

1 Groupement Hospitalier de l'Institut Catholique de Lille
2 CHU Grenoble
3 CHRU Lille - Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Lille]
4 Service de Cardiologie
5 CHU Amiens-Picardie
6 MP3CV - Mécanismes physiopathologiques et conséquences des calcifications vasculaires - UR UPJV 7517

The prevalence of valvular heart disease (VHD) is increasing as the result of an ageing population. The most recent EuroHeart survey on VHD underlined an important gap between guidelines on the management of patients with VHD and real-life practice [1]. Several explanations may account for this discrepancy. VHD care is not considered as a cardiology subspecialty, although patients with complex or multiple VHD along with comorbid conditions need both clinical and pathophysiological VHD expertise, multimodality imaging and a global approach.

Domaines: Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]

Sylvestre Marechaux, Pierre-Vladimir Ennezat, Raphaelle Ashley Guerbaai, André Vincentelli, Franck Levy, et al.. Dedicated heart valve networks for improving the outcome of patients with valvular heart disease?. Archives of cardiovascular diseases, 2018, 111 (8-9), pp.465-469. ⟨10.1016/j.acvd.2018.03.002⟩. ⟨hal-03580333⟩