Joint Surgical Associations (EACTS, LACES, ASCVTS, AATS, and STS) Position Statement Regarding the VARC-3 Definitions for Aortic Valve Clinical Research

Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Cardiac Surgery, CHUV, Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland.
• ² La Tour Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland.
• ³ Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay.
• ⁴ University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
• ⁵ Piedmont Heart Institute, Atlanta, GA, USA.
• ⁶ Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
• ⁷ Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA.
• ⁸ University of Michigan Hospitals, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
• ⁹ University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
• ¹⁰ Kobe University, Tokyo, Japan.
• ¹¹ Institute for Clinical Trials and Methodology, University College London, London, UK.
• ¹² Dedinje Cardiovascular Institute, Belgrade, Serbia.
• ¹³ Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands.