Surgical treatment of bicuspid aortic valve disease: knowledge gaps and research perspectives

J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2014 Jun;147(6):1749-57, 1757.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2014.01.021. Epub 2014 Jan 21.

International Bicuspid Aortic Valve Consortium (BAVCon) Investigators:
Simon C Body, Eric M Isselbacher, J Daniel Muehlschlegel, Frederick J Schoen, Robert A Levine, Christine Seidman, Jonathan Seidman, Thoralf M Sundt, Calum A MacRae, Prem Shekar, Sary F Aranki, Kim A Eagle, Barbara L Kroner, Federico Asch, Hector I Michelena, Maurice Enriquez-Sarano, Nandan Anavekar, Limongelli Giuseppe, Maria Giovanna Russo, Fiorella Fratta, Berardo Sarubbi, Antonello D'Andrea, Giuseppe Pacileo, Giovanni Di Salvo, Giancarlo Scognamiglio, Raffaella Esposito, Marianna Carrozza, Melina Morelli, Alessandra Rea, Concetta Ricci, Mona Nemer, Malenka M Bissell, Eduardo Bossone, Rodolfo Citro, Giuseppe Di Benedetto, Francesco Ferrara, Alessandro Frigiola, Andrea Ballotta, Francesca Pluchinotta, Alessandro Varrica, Alessandro Della Corte, Marisa De Feo, Ciro Bancone, Giovanni Dialetto, Franco E Covino, Sabrina Manduca, Marianna Buonocore, Gianantonio Nappi, Gordon Huggins, Patrizio Lancelotti, Natzi Sakalihasan, Yohan Bossé, Patrick Mathieu, Philippe Pibarot, Marie-Chloé Boulanger, Anna M Booher, Rita K Milewski, Joseph Bavaria, Dianna M Milewicz, Siddharth Prakash, Arturo Evangelista, Jose Rodriguez-Palomares, Gisela Teixido Tura, Joshua C Denny, Peter Weeke

¹ Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Cardiothoracic Sciences, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy. Electronic address: aledellacorte@libero.it.
² Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.
³ Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Mich.
⁴ Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Saarland University Medical Center, Homburg/Saar, Germany.
⁵ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.
⁶ Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.
⁷ Department of Cardiology, Hospital Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, Spain.
⁸ Laval University, Québec, Canada.
⁹ Cardiology Division, Monaldi Hospital, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy.
¹⁰ Division of Cardiac Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.
¹¹ Department of Cardiac Surgery, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, Milan, Italy.
¹² Heart Department, University Hospital, Salerno, Italy.
¹³ Cardiovascular Surgery Service, University Hospital, Liège, Belgium.
¹⁴ Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Cardiothoracic Sciences, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy.
¹⁵ Division of Cardiac Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.

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