A National Strategy to Detect and Treat Heart Valve Diseases in Canada

Jessica Forcillo; David A Wood; Omar Abdel-Razek; Najah Adreak; Anita Asgar; Edgar Chedrawy; Janine Eckstein; Jean-Francois Legare; Madhu K Natarajan; Philippe Pibarot; Rima Styra; Benjamin Tyrrell; Harindra Wijeysundera; David Messika-Zeitoun; Canadian Cardiovascular Society Working Group on Heart Valve Disease

doi:10.1016/j.cjca.2023.01.021

A National Strategy to Detect and Treat Heart Valve Diseases in Canada

Can J Cardiol. 2023 May;39(5):567-569. doi: 10.1016/j.cjca.2023.01.021. Epub 2023 Jan 27.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiac Surgery, Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM), Montréal, Québec, Canada. Electronic address: jessicaforcillo@hotmail.com.
² UBC Centre for Cardiovascular Innovation - Centre d'Innovation Cardiovasculaire (CCI-CIC), Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
³ Department of Cardiology, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
⁴ Department of Surgery, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
⁵ Institut de Cardiologie de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
⁶ Division of Cardiac Surgery, Nova Scotia Health and Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
⁷ Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
⁸ New Brunswick Heart Center, Dalhousie University Medicine New Brunswick, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.
⁹ Hamilton Health Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
¹⁰ Department of Cardiology, Institut Universitaire de Cardiologie et de Pneumologie de Québec/Québec Heart and Lung Institute, Université Laval, Québec, Québec, Canada.
¹¹ Center for Mental Health, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
¹² Division of Cardiology, CK Hui Heart Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
¹³ Schulich Heart Program, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
¹⁴ Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Electronic address: DMessika-zeitoun@ottawaheart.ca.

PMID: 36716859
DOI: 10.1016/j.cjca.2023.01.021

No abstract available

Publication types

Editorial
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Aortic Valve / surgery
Canada / epidemiology
Heart Valve Diseases* / diagnosis
Heart Valve Diseases* / epidemiology
Heart Valve Diseases* / therapy
Heart Valve Prosthesis Implantation*
Heart Valve Prosthesis*
Humans
Treatment Outcome