ACC/AHA Practice Guidelines
ACC/AHA 2006 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Valvular Heart Disease: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Revise the 1998 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Valvular Heart Disease) Developed in Collaboration With the Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists Endorsed by the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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This document was approved by the American College of Cardiology Foundation Board of Trustees in May 2006 and by the American Heart Association Science Advisory and Coordinating Committee in May 2006.

When citing this document, the American College of Cardiology Foundation requests that the following citation format be used: Bonow RO, Carabello BA, Chatterjee K, de Leon AC Jr., Faxon DP, Freed MD, Gaasch WH, Lytle BW, Nishimura RA, O’Gara PT, O’Rourke RA, Otto CM, Shah PM, Shanewise JS. ACC/AHA 2006 guidelines for the management of patients with valvular heart disease: a report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines (Writing Committee to Develop Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Valvular Heart Disease). American College of Cardiology Web Site. Available at: http://www.acc.org/clinical/guidelines/valvular/index.pdf.

This article has been copublished in the August 1, 2006 issue of Circulation.

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Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists Representative

Immediate Past Chair

Former Task Force member during this writing effort