This website should support heart valve specialist in searching size-specific information on prosthetic heart valves and annuloplasty ring systems.
For every existing product, the following information is provided if available:
- Product image
- Hemodynamic in vivo data assessed by Doppler echocardiography:
- size-specific transvalvular mean and peak gradients
- effective orifice area - Calculators of effective orifice area indexed to body surface area
- Product dimensions
- Comments provided by manufacturer
- Comments by cardiac surgeons, transcatheter heart valve specialists and echocardiographers
- Reference
Important publications
- Zoghbi et al: Recommendations for evaluation of prosthetic valves with echocardiography and doppler ultrasound: A report from the american society of echocardiography's guidelines J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2009;22:975-1014; quiz 1082-4.
- Rosenhek R, Binder T, Maurer G, Baumgartner H.: Normal values for doppler echocardiographic assessment of heart valve prostheses. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2003;16:1116-1127.
- Blauwet LA, Danielson GK, Burkhart HM, Dearani JA, Malouf JF, Connolly HM, Hodge DO, Herges RM, Miller FA, Jr.: Comprehensive echocardiographic assessment of the hemodynamic parameters of 285 tricuspid valve bioprostheses early after implantation. J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2010;23:1045-1059, 1059 e1041-1042.
- ESC guidelines Guidelines on the management of valvular heart disease (version 2012) Alec Vahanian (Chairperson) (France)*, et al, European Heart Journal doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehs109.
- 2014 AHA/ACC Guideline for the Management of Patients With Valvular Heart Disease Rick A. Nishimura et al, JACC 2014.
- Frank M, Ganzoni G, Starck C, Grünenfelder J, Corti R, Gruner C, Hürlimann D, Tanner FC, Jenni R, Greutmann M, Biaggi P: Lack of Accessible Data on Prosthetic Heart Valves. Int J Cardiovasc Imaging. 2016 Mar;32(3):439-47. Epub 2015 Dec 8.