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Heart Valve Disease

State of the Art

  • Provides state of the art instruction on the management of valve disease

  • Reveals the current state of diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of patients

  • Describes the new devices and their most appropriate uses when treating structural heart diseases

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. Introduction to Valve Heart Disease

    • Jose Zamorano, Álvaro Marco del Castillo
    Pages 1-8
  3. Evaluation of Patients with Heart Valve Disease

    • Jose Zamorano, Ciro Santoro, Álvaro Marco del Castillo
    Pages 9-19
  4. Aortic Stenosis

    • Marie-Annick Clavel, Nancy Côté, Philippe Pibarot
    Pages 21-46
  5. Aortic Regurgitation

    • Covadonga Fernández-Golfín
    Pages 47-64
  6. Aortic Valve Intraoperative Echocardiography

    • Covadonga Fernández-Golfín
    Pages 65-75
  7. Mitral Stenosis

    • Luc Pierard
    Pages 77-88
  8. Mitral Regurgitation

    • Madalina Garbi, Julien Magne, Francesco Maisano, Martin Swaans, Raluca Dulgheru, Patrizio Lancellotti
    Pages 89-109
  9. Mitral Valve Intraoperative Echocardiography

    • Alessandra Carvelli, Covadonga Fernández-Golfín
    Pages 111-126
  10. Tricuspid Valve Disease

    • Rebecca T. Hahn
    Pages 127-145
  11. Pulmonic Valve Diseases

    • Bogdan A. Popescu, Maria-Magdalena Gurzun, Andreea C. Popescu
    Pages 147-161
  12. Acute Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease

    • G. Itzikowitz, E. A. Prendergast, B. D. Prendergast, L. Zühlke
    Pages 163-175
  13. Infective Endocarditis

    • Gilbert Habib, Maria Abellas-Sequeiros
    Pages 177-192
  14. Multiple Valve Disease

    • Philippe Unger, Mauro Pepi
    Pages 193-205
  15. Prosthetic Heart Valves

    • John Chambers
    Pages 207-230
  16. Valvular Heart Failure

    • Madalina Garbi
    Pages 231-243
  17. Antithrombotic Therapy in Valvular Heart Disease

    • Steven Droogmans, Simon Vanhentenrijk, Bernard Cosyns
    Pages 245-256
  18. Heart Valve Diseases in Pregnancy

    • Denisa Muraru, Elena Surkova
    Pages 257-269
  19. Back Matter

    Pages 271-279

About this book

This book provides a state-of-the-art description of the pathophysiology, diagnosis and management of valvular heart disease (VHD). With an aging population, the incidence and complexity of VHD has markedly increased and the introduction of transcatheter valve therapies have revolutionized the management of these frequent and serious cardiovascular diseases. The development of percutaneous valve interventions has revolutionized the management of VHD (or has dramatically changed its management)

Heart Valve Disease: State of the Art is dedicated to provide up-to-date knowledge to clinical and interventional cardiologists, cardiovascular imagers and cardiac surgeons. It provides state-of-the-art information for the health-care professional working in heart valve clinics, heart teams, and centers of excellence that specialize in managing patients with heart valve disease.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain

    Jose Zamorano

  • Cardiology, University Hospital Sart Tilman Cardiology, Liège, Belgium

    Patrizio Lancellotti

  • University of Liège, Liège, Belgium

    Luc Pierard

  • Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie de Québec, Quebec Heart & Lung Institute, Canada

    Philippe Pibarot

About the editors

José Luis Zamorano is Professor of Medicine at the University Alcala in Madrid and Director of the Cardiovascular department at the University Hospital Ramon y Cajal, Madrid. His key research interests include ischaemic heart disease, cardiovascular risk factors and imaging modalities. Professor Zamorano is Past President of the European Association of Echocardiography (EAE) and Past President of the Working Group on Non-invasive Diagnostic Imaging of the Spanish Society of Cardiology. Currently Vice president of the European Society of Cardiology. He served on numerous Editorial Boards, including the European Journal of Echocardiography, the American Society of Echocardiography and the European Heart Journal. He has authored over 400 articles for peer-reviewed journals. He gained his MD from the University Complutense in 1987.

Patricio Lanzelloti is a pioneer in the field of valvular heart disease. He has published several papers related to the main topic of the present book and is part of the guidelines writing group on valvular heart disease. He has already co-edited several books including the secondary mitral regurgitation with Khalil Fattouch.


Luc Pierard is honorary Professor of Medicine at the University of Liège, Belgium and was Head of the Department of Cardiology of the University Hospital Sart Tilman in Liège from 2002 to 2017. He was the first to demonstrate the utility of dobutamine stress echocardiography for identifying myocardial viability and ischemia and to use exercise echocardiography in valvular heart diseases. He was President of the Belgian Society of Cardiology and had several positions in the European Society of Cardiology: he chaired the Working Group on Echocardiography and is currently chairperson of the ESC Council in Valvular Heart Disease. He is Editor-in-Chief of Acta Cardiologica and Senior Associate Editor of the EHJ Cardiovascular Imaging. He has published more than 400 peer-reviewed articles (many on valvular heart disease) and more than 50 book chapters.




Philippe Pibarot is professor at the Department of Medicine of Laval University and holds the Canada Research Chair in Valvular Heart Disease (VHD) at the Québec Heart & Lung Institute. He has published more than 500 articles and presented >800 invited conferences in the course of his career and he is among the most influential scientists in the field of Medicine according to the Clarivate Analytics Highly Cited Researchers 2018. He received the Research Achievement Award, Canadian Cardiovascular Society (2010) and a Doctorate Honoris Causa of University of Liège, Belgium (2017). 



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Heart Valve Disease

  • Book Subtitle: State of the Art

  • Editors: Jose Zamorano, Patrizio Lancellotti, Luc Pierard, Philippe Pibarot

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23104-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23103-3Published: 27 November 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23106-4Published: 27 November 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-23104-0Published: 12 November 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 279

  • Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 123 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Cardiology

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Softcover Book USD 99.99
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