Reviews in Heart Valve Stenosis and Regurgitation will publish high-quality scholarly review papers with the aim to highlight recent advances in the field, whilst emphasizing important directions and new possibilities for future inquiries. We anticipate the research presented will promote discussion in the Heart Valve Disease community that will translate to best practice applications in clinical, public health, and policy settings.
The Reviews in Heart Valve Stenosis and Regurgitation collection welcomes full-length, mini, or systematic review papers. New articles will be added to this collection as they are published.
In this Research Topic, we welcome reviews on, but not limited to, the following themes:
Aortic:
Imaging:
1. Evaluation of aortic valve stenosis in multivalvular heart disease
2. Assessment of aortic regurgitation severity
3. The role of cardiac MRI in the assessment of severe aortic assessment
4. Understanding the bicuspid aortic valve disease: Genotype, phenotype and imaging assessment
Surgical:
1. Bicuspid aortic valve repair: Indications, techniques, outcomes and knowledge gap
2. Role of surgical aortic valve replacement in the transcatheter heart valve era
3. Mechanical vs. bioprosthetic valve replacement
Interventional cardiology:
1. Potentials, pitfalls, and unmet needs of transcatheter aortic valve intervention in Transcatheter aortic valve intervention (TAV-TAV)
2. Leaflet thrombosis in transcatheter aortic valve intervention: Mechanisms, prevention and treatment options
3. Commissural alignment technique in transcatheter heart valve intervention
4. Transcatheter aortic valve intervention in patients with aortic regurgitation
5. Tips and tricks of TAVI in patients with bicuspid aortic valve disease
Mitral:
Imaging:
1. Atrial functional mitral regurgitation versus ventricular functional mitral regurgitation
2. Role of advanced cardiac imaging in the assessment of mitral valve disease
3. Hemodynamics assessment of TEER: Beyond transmitral gradient
4. Mitral annular calcification: Is it an atrial disease or ventricular disease?
Surgical:
1. Mitral valve repair vs. mitral valve replacement
2. Surgical valve intervention in patients with mitral annular calcification
3. Surgical approach to ischemic mitral regurgitation
4. Robotic vs. minimally invasive vs. conventional mitral valve surgery
Interventional cardiology:
1. Transcatheter mitral valve repair vs. transcatheter mitral valve replacement
2. Mechanisms and treatment options for left ventricular outflow tract obstruction
3. Electrosurgery and transcatheter mitral valve interventions
4. Management of iatrogenic interatrial septostomy after transcatheter mitral valve intervention
5. Transcatheter paravalvular leak closure: Tips, tricks, and novel strategies
Tricuspid:
Imaging:
1. Clinical anatomy of the tricuspid valve
2. Echocardiographic assessment of tricuspid valve interventions for transcatheter heart valve intervention
3. RV function assessment before tricuspid valve intervention
4. Intracardiac echocardiography in tricuspid valve intervention
5. Advanced imaging assessment in tricuspid valve disease with cardiac CT and MRI assessment
Surgical:
1. Indications and timing of tricuspid valve surgery
2. Surgical techniques of tricuspid valve repair
Interventional cardiology:
1. Tips and tricks in transcatheter edge-to-edge repair in tricuspid valve repair
2. Defining the endpoints in clinical trials of transcatheter tricuspid valve intervention
3. Transcatheter caval approach in patients with transcatheter tricuspid valve interventions
4. The role of the pressure-volume loop in transcatheter tricuspid valve intervention. The missing link in hemodynamics to flow dynamics
5. Transcatheter tricuspid valve repair vs. replacement in future
Miscellaneous Topics:
1. Electrosurgery in transcatheter heart valve interventions
2. Understanding vortex flow assessment in structural heart disease
3. Pressure-volume loop assessment in valvular heart disease
4. Definition of success in valvular heart interventions: Correction of Doppler vs. Physiology
Reviews in Heart Valve Stenosis and Regurgitation will publish high-quality scholarly review papers with the aim to highlight recent advances in the field, whilst emphasizing important directions and new possibilities for future inquiries. We anticipate the research presented will promote discussion in the Heart Valve Disease community that will translate to best practice applications in clinical, public health, and policy settings.
The Reviews in Heart Valve Stenosis and Regurgitation collection welcomes full-length, mini, or systematic review papers. New articles will be added to this collection as they are published.
In this Research Topic, we welcome reviews on, but not limited to, the following themes:
Aortic:
Imaging:
1. Evaluation of aortic valve stenosis in multivalvular heart disease
2. Assessment of aortic regurgitation severity
3. The role of cardiac MRI in the assessment of severe aortic assessment
4. Understanding the bicuspid aortic valve disease: Genotype, phenotype and imaging assessment
Surgical:
1. Bicuspid aortic valve repair: Indications, techniques, outcomes and knowledge gap
2. Role of surgical aortic valve replacement in the transcatheter heart valve era
3. Mechanical vs. bioprosthetic valve replacement
Interventional cardiology:
1. Potentials, pitfalls, and unmet needs of transcatheter aortic valve intervention in Transcatheter aortic valve intervention (TAV-TAV)
2. Leaflet thrombosis in transcatheter aortic valve intervention: Mechanisms, prevention and treatment options
3. Commissural alignment technique in transcatheter heart valve intervention
4. Transcatheter aortic valve intervention in patients with aortic regurgitation
5. Tips and tricks of TAVI in patients with bicuspid aortic valve disease
Mitral:
Imaging:
1. Atrial functional mitral regurgitation versus ventricular functional mitral regurgitation
2. Role of advanced cardiac imaging in the assessment of mitral valve disease
3. Hemodynamics assessment of TEER: Beyond transmitral gradient
4. Mitral annular calcification: Is it an atrial disease or ventricular disease?
Surgical:
1. Mitral valve repair vs. mitral valve replacement
2. Surgical valve intervention in patients with mitral annular calcification
3. Surgical approach to ischemic mitral regurgitation
4. Robotic vs. minimally invasive vs. conventional mitral valve surgery
Interventional cardiology:
1. Transcatheter mitral valve repair vs. transcatheter mitral valve replacement
2. Mechanisms and treatment options for left ventricular outflow tract obstruction
3. Electrosurgery and transcatheter mitral valve interventions
4. Management of iatrogenic interatrial septostomy after transcatheter mitral valve intervention
5. Transcatheter paravalvular leak closure: Tips, tricks, and novel strategies
Tricuspid:
Imaging:
1. Clinical anatomy of the tricuspid valve
2. Echocardiographic assessment of tricuspid valve interventions for transcatheter heart valve intervention
3. RV function assessment before tricuspid valve intervention
4. Intracardiac echocardiography in tricuspid valve intervention
5. Advanced imaging assessment in tricuspid valve disease with cardiac CT and MRI assessment
Surgical:
1. Indications and timing of tricuspid valve surgery
2. Surgical techniques of tricuspid valve repair
Interventional cardiology:
1. Tips and tricks in transcatheter edge-to-edge repair in tricuspid valve repair
2. Defining the endpoints in clinical trials of transcatheter tricuspid valve intervention
3. Transcatheter caval approach in patients with transcatheter tricuspid valve interventions
4. The role of the pressure-volume loop in transcatheter tricuspid valve intervention. The missing link in hemodynamics to flow dynamics
5. Transcatheter tricuspid valve repair vs. replacement in future
Miscellaneous Topics:
1. Electrosurgery in transcatheter heart valve interventions
2. Understanding vortex flow assessment in structural heart disease
3. Pressure-volume loop assessment in valvular heart disease
4. Definition of success in valvular heart interventions: Correction of Doppler vs. Physiology
