Provides a focused update to the ACC/AHA guidelines for the management of patients with valvular heart disease.
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Updates valvular heart disease management recommendations now; extends prior ACC/AHA guidelines for clinicians and trials.
It is important that the medical profession play a significant role in critically evaluating the use of diagnostic procedures and therapies as they are introduced in the detection, management, or prevention of disease states.Rigorous and expert analysis of the available data documenting the absolute and relative benefits and risks of those procedures and therapies can produce helpful guidelines that improve the effectiveness of care, optimize patient outcomes, and favorably affect the e526 Circulation
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