Bicuspid aortic valve: identifying knowledge gaps and rising to the challenge from the International Bicuspid Aortic Valve Consortium (BAVCon)

Affiliations

• ¹ From the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN (H.I.M., N.A., M.E.-S.); Division of Medical Genetics; Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX (S.K.P., D.M.M.); Department of Cardiothoracic Sciences, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy (A.D.C.); Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, United Kingdom (M.M.B.); Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie de Québec, Laval University, Québec, Canada (P.M., Y.B., P.P.); Cardiologia SUN, Monaldi Hospital, Naples, Italy (G.L.); Cardiology Division, "Cava de' Tirreni and Amalfi Coast" Hospital, Heart Department, University of Salerno, Italy (E.B.); Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI (D.W.B.); University Hospital of Liège, GIGA Cardiovascular Sciences, CHU Sart Tilman, Liège, Belgium (P.L.); Heart Center and Thoracic Aortic Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA (E.M.I.); Division of Cardiac Surgery and Corrigan Minehan Heart Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA (T.M.S.); Servei de Cardiologia, Hospital Vall d'Hebron, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (A.E.); and Dept of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (S.C.B.). michelena.hector@mayo.edu.
• ² From the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN (H.I.M., N.A., M.E.-S.); Division of Medical Genetics; Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX (S.K.P., D.M.M.); Department of Cardiothoracic Sciences, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy (A.D.C.); Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Radcliffe Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, United Kingdom (M.M.B.); Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie de Québec, Laval University, Québec, Canada (P.M., Y.B., P.P.); Cardiologia SUN, Monaldi Hospital, Naples, Italy (G.L.); Cardiology Division, "Cava de' Tirreni and Amalfi Coast" Hospital, Heart Department, University of Salerno, Italy (E.B.); Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI (D.W.B.); University Hospital of Liège, GIGA Cardiovascular Sciences, CHU Sart Tilman, Liège, Belgium (P.L.); Heart Center and Thoracic Aortic Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA (E.M.I.); Division of Cardiac Surgery and Corrigan Minehan Heart Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA (T.M.S.); Servei de Cardiologia, Hospital Vall d'Hebron, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (A.E.); and Dept of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (S.C.B.).