2019 AATS/ACC/SCAI/STS expert consensus systems of care document: Operator and institutional recommendations and requirements for transcatheter mitral valve intervention

Transcatheter repair and replacement procedures have become an integral feature of the management of appropriately selected patients with valvular heart disease (VHD), thereby enabling the delivery of less-invasive treatments across a broad spectrum of conditions previously correctable only with open-heart surgery. Demonstration of the feasibility, effectiveness, and safety of transcatheter valve therapies in randomized controlled trials and...