2021 ESC/EACTS Guidelines for the management of valvular heart disease
Friedhelm Beyersdorf, Alec Vahanian, Milan Milojevic, Fabien Praz, Stephan Baldus, Johann Bauersachs, Davide Capodanno, Lenard Conradi, Michele De Bonis, Ruggero De Paulis, Victoria Delgado, Nick Freemantle, Martine Gilard, Kristina H. Haugaa, Anders Jeppsson, Peter Jüni, Luc Piérard, Bernard Prendergast, Rafael Sádaba, Christophe Tribouilloy, Wojtek Wojakowski, ESC/EACTS Scientific Document Group, Franz-Josef Neumann, Patrick O. Myers, Magdy Abdelhamid, Stephan Achenbach, Riccardo Asteggiano, Fabio Barili, Michael A. Borger, Thierry Carrel, Jean‐Philippe Collet, Dan Foldager, Gilbert Habib, Christian Hassager, Alar Irs, Bernard Iung, Marjan Jahangiri, Hugo A. Katus, Konstantinos C. Koskinas, Steffen Massberg, Christian Mueller, Jens Cosedis Nielsen, Philippe Pîbarot, Amina Rakisheva, Marco Roffi, Andrea Rubboli, Е. V. Shlyakhto, Matthias Siepe, Marta Sitges, Lars Søndergaard, Miguel Sousa‐Uva, Guiseppe Tarantini, Jose Luis Zamorano, Fabien Praz, Milan Milojevic, Stephan Baldus, Johann Bauersachs, Davide Capodanno, Lenard Conradi, Michele De Bonis, Ruggero De Paulis, Victoria Delgado, Nick Freemantle, Martine Gilard, Kristina H Haugaa, Anders Jeppsson, Peter Jüni, L. Pierard, Bernard Prendergast, Rafael Sádaba, Christophe Tribouilloy, Wojtek Wojakowski
Abstract
The ESC/EACTS Guidelines represent the views of the ESC and the EACTS and were produced after careful consideration of the scientific and medical knowledge and the evidence available at the time of their publication. The ESC and the EACTS are not responsible in the event of any contradiction, discrepancy and/ or ambiguity between the ESC/EACTS Guidelines and any other official recommendations or guidelines issued by the relevant public health authorities, in particular in relation to good use of healthcare or therapeutic strategies. Health professionals are encouraged to take the ESC/EACTS Guidelines fully into account when exercising their clinical judgment, as well as in the determination and the implementation of preventive, diagnostic or therapeutic medical strategies; however, the ESC/ EACTS Guidelines do not override, in any way whatsoever, the individual responsibility of health professionals to make appropriate and accurate decisions in consideration of each patient's health condition and in consultation with that patient and, where appropriate and/or necessary, the patient's caregiver. Nor do the ESC/ EACTS Guidelines exempt health professionals from taking into full and careful consideration the relevant official updated recommendations or guidelines issued by the competent public health authorities, in order to manage each patient's case in light of the scientifically accepted data pursuant to their respective ethical and professional obligations. It is also the health professional's responsibility to verify the applicable rules and regulations relating to drugs and medical devices at the time of prescription.