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, Switzerland; La Tour Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland. Electronic address: [email protected].
• ² Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay.
• ³ University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• ⁴ Piedmont Heart Institute, Atlanta, Georgia.
• ⁵ Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois.
• ⁶ Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri.
• ⁷ University of Michigan Hospitals, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
• ⁸ University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
• ⁹ Kobe University, Tokyo, Japan.
• ¹⁰ Institute for Clinical Trials and Methodology, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
• ¹¹ Dedinje Cardiovascular Institute, Belgrade, Serbia; Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands.