Standards defining a 'Heart Valve Centre': ESC Working Group on Valvular Heart Disease and European Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery Viewpoint

Affiliations

• ¹ Cardiothoracic Centre, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals, London, UK.
• ² Cardiology Department, Bichat Hospital, APHP, DHU Fire and Paris-Diderot University, Paris, France.
• ³ Vienna General Hospital, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
• ⁴ Cibercv, University Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain.
• ⁵ Departments of Cardiology, Heart Valve Clinic, CHU Sart Tilman, Liège, Belgium.
• ⁶ University of Liège Hospital, GIGA Cardiovascular Sciences, Liège, Belgium.
• ⁷ Lille University Hospital, Lille, France.
• ⁸ Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
• ⁹ Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
• ¹⁰ Department of Medicine, Laval University, Quebec, Canada.
• ¹¹ Corrigan Minehan Heart Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
• ¹² Division of Adult Congenital and Valvular Heart Disease, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University Hospital Muenster, Muenster, Germany.
• ¹³ Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
• ¹⁴ Anthea Hospital, Gruppo Villa Maria Care and Research, Bari, Italy.