Valvular Heart Disease: A Companion to Braunwald's Heart Disease, 6th Edition

1 Epidemiology of Valvular Heart Disease
2 Molecular Mechanisms of Calcific Aortic Valve Disease
3 Clinical and Genetic Risk Factors for Calcific Aortic Valve Disease
4 Detection and Screening for Valvular Heart Disease
5 Left Ventricular and Vascular Changes in Valvular Heart Disease
6 The Multidisciplinary Heart Valve Team and Patient-Centered Shared Decision Making
7 The Role of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance and Computed Tomography in the Evaluation of Patients With Valvular Heart Disease
8 Aortic Stenosis: Clinical Presentation, Disease Stages, and Timing of Intervention
9 Aortic Regurgitation: Clinical Presentation, Disease Stages, and Management
10 The Bicuspid Aortic Valve and Associated Aortic Disease
11 Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation: Indications, Procedure, and Outcomes
12 Imaging Assessment for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation
13 Surgical Approach to Diseases of the Aortic Valve and Aortic Root
14 Rheumatic and Calcific Mitral Stenosis and Mitral Commissurotomy
15 Mitral Valve Prolapse
16 Secondary Mitral Regurgitation Due to Abnormalities of Left Ventricular or Left Atrial Size and Function
17 Surgical Mitral Valve Repair and Replacement
18 Transcatheter Mitral Valve Repair and Replacement
19 Imaging Guidance of Transcatheter and Surgical Mitral Valve Procedures
20 Diagnostic and Imaging Evaluation of Tricuspid Regurgitation
21 Transcatheter Tricuspid Valve Interventions
22 Pulmonic Valve Disease in Adults
23 Infective Endocarditis
24 Prosthetic Heart Valves
25 Lifetime Trajectory and Management of Bioprosthetic Valve Degeneration
26 Valvular Heart Disease in Pregnancy

Catherine M. Otto, MD, Editor-in-Chief, Heart, J. Ward Kennedy-Hamilton Endowed Chair in Cardiology, Professor of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA and Brian R. Lindman, MD, MSCI, FACC, Associate Professor of Medicine, Medical Director, Structural Heart and Valve Center, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, USA