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August 1, 2006CirculationOpen Access

ACC/AHA 2006 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Valvular Heart Disease

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Population

Patients with valvular heart disease, including aortic stenosis, mitral stenosis, aortic regurgitation…

Design

Guideline

Authors

RBRobert O. BonowBCBlasé A. CarabelloKCKanu Chatterjee

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Overview

Guides uniform valvular severity grading and IE prophylaxis decisions in practice; extends prior consensus with standardized quantitative criteria for research comparability.

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Population
Patients with valvular heart disease, including aortic stenosis, mitral stenosis, aortic regurgitation, mitral regurgitation, and right-sided valve disease, as well as patients evaluated for infective endocarditis prophylaxis.

This guideline establishes standardized quantitative and qualitative criteria for assessing valvular heart disease severity and provides recommendations for infective endocarditis prophylaxis.

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Bonow et al. (2006) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a866eeb169aec2a7f0f754ehttps://doi.org/10.1161/circulationaha.106.176857
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