Transatlantic editorial on transcatheter aortic valve replacement

Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Joseph B. Whitehead Department of Surgery, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga. Electronic address: vthoura@emory.edu.
• ² Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, Columbia University, New York, NY.
• ³ Department of Cardiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.
• ⁴ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Washington University, St Louis, Mo.
• ⁵ Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Santa Maria, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal.
• ⁶ Department of Cardiac Surgery, Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif.
• ⁷ Quebec Heart & Lung Institute, Laval University, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
• ⁸ Department of Cardiac Surgery, Leipzig Heart Center, Leipzig, Germany.
• ⁹ Clinic for Cardiac Surgery Karlsruhe, Germany.
• ¹⁰ National Institute Health Research Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Unit, Royal Brompton Hospital and Harefield National Health Service Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom.
• ¹¹ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart Centre Freiburg University, Freiburg, Germany.
• ¹² Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Mo.
• ¹³ Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Peter Munk Cardiovascular Center, Toronto General Research Institute, Toronto General Hospital and the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.