18th edn. McGraw-Hill, New York, 2015; Bonow et al., Circulation, 114:e84–e231, 2006). Optimal management of VHD requires close collaboration among primary care physicians, cardiologists, and cardiac surgeons. With timely recognition and appropriate referral to cardiac specialists, the majority...
Data from New York State suggest that higher total annual surgeon volume is associated with increased repair rates for primary MR, with an improved 1-year survival and steady decrease in reoperation risk when >25 total mitral operations are performed annually. In addition, mitral valve repair rate...
Tamis-Holland, MD, FACC—Director, Interventional Cardiology Fellowship, Mount Sinai; Saint Luke's Hospital Director, Women's Heart NY Assistant Professor of Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY Carl L. Tommaso, MD, FACC, FSCAI—Director, Cardiac ...
Emile Bacha Columbia University/NewYork-Presbyterian New York, NY, USA Nothing to disclose Jonathan Chen Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Philadelphia, PA, USA x Medtronic, WL Gore Appendix 3. A librarian used a mix of controlled vocabulary terms and free text terms to create individual search...