This document provides multisociety expert consensus recommendations for operator and institutional requirements for transcatheter mitral valve interventions.
Should inform operator training and center credentialing now; extends prior structural heart consensus to mitral interventions.
Transcatheter repair and replacement procedures have become an integral feature of the management of appropriately selected patients with valvular heart disease (VHD), thereby enabling the delivery of less-invasive treatments across a broad spectrum of conditions previously correctable only with open-heart surgery.Demonstration of the feasibility, effectiveness, and safety of transcatheter valve therapies in randomized controlled trials and large prospective registries has generated
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