The American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology today released new practice guidelines [PDF] for the management of patients with valvular heart disease (VHD). Among its most notable features, the new document provides a new system of classification for VHD and lowers the threshold for interventions, including, for the first time, transcatheter as well as surgical interventions.
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