2020 ACC/AHA valvular heart disease guideline

Context Patients with aortic stenosis who need valve intervention and for whom a bioprosthetic valve is suitable (ACC summary of the 2020 guideline)

Recipient

Recipient not specified

Population

Patients for whom a bioprosthetic valve is suitable, which the ACC summary groups under its points on aortic stenosis. Some of its rules name symptomatic patients and a few name an age range (65 to 80 years). The summary does not state an adult-only limit.

Care setting

Not stated in the ACC summary. The decision is described as one for a team and the patient to take together.

Geography

Not stated in the ACC summary (issued by American societies; jurisdiction not verified)

Life stage

Not stated; the 65 to 80 year range applies to one rule only

Gestational age

Not reported

Postnatal age

Not reported

Follow-up

Not applicable (guideline context)

• Description Guidance Certainty not assessed

  An ACC summary says the 2020 ACC/AHA valvular heart disease guideline supersedes the 2014 AHA/ACC guideline and the focused update issued in 2017.

  Source problem. A cited source is corrected. Check the sources before relying on this claim.

  Applies to Recipient not specified

  • Patients for whom a bioprosthetic valve is suitable, which the ACC summary groups under its points on aortic stenosis. Some of its rules name symptomatic patients and a few name an age range (65 to 80 years). The summary does not state an adult-only limit.
  • Not stated in the ACC summary. The decision is described as one for a team and the patient to take together.
  • Not stated in the ACC summary (issued by American societies; jurisdiction not verified)
  • Not stated; the 65 to 80 year range applies to one rule only
  • Gestational age Not reported
  • Postnatal age Not reported

  Follow-up Not applicable (guideline context)

  Certainty method

  Not assessed

  Limitations

  The source is the ACC key-perspectives summary (ACC content, hash only), not the guideline text. PubMed holds no abstract for the guideline and lists four corrections (2021-02-02, 2023-08-22, 2023-11-14 and 2024-09-17); their text was not read, so it is not known whether they change anything stated here. This claim does not link to records of the 2014 or 2017 documents.

  Last checked

  2026-10-15

  Next evidence check due

  Not scheduled

  Sources and citations (2)

  1. Supports 2020 ACC/AHA Guideline for the Management of Patients With Valvular Heart Disease: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines

     Guideline · Circulation · Edition Published in Circulation 143(5):e72-e227 (issue date 2021-02-02; electronic publication 2020-12-17). PubMed bibliographic record only: PubMed holds no abstract and lists no PMC copy. The guideline text was not read. PubMed lists 4 corrections to the guideline; their text was not read. The same source also holds snapshots of two ACC pages: Part 1 of 3 of the key perspectives (dated Dec 17, 2020) and the ACC article on what changed from the 2017 update. They are ACC summaries, not the guideline text; Parts 2 and 3 were not fetched. In the page markup some less-than symbols hide the text that follows them, so only passages free of such symbols are quoted. The publisher field is the journal title as PubMed gives it. · Published 2021-02-02 · DOI: 10.1161/CIR.0000000000000923 · PMID: 33332150

     Locator

     Introduction, sentence 1

     How it applies

     The 2020 guideline replaces the 2014 guideline and the 2017 focused update.

     Retrieved

     2026-10-15T13:52:57Z

     Source effective date

     Not reported

     Source state

     Corrected

     Snapshot hash

     a22941b13dfac639c9e2466be0f0e80086c8f47a6b195e097915b63e7d1923aa

     Reuse basis

     PubMed record and ACC page. PubMed record fetched through NCBI E-utilities on 2026-10-15. Only the hash of the bytes is kept; nothing is committed. Bibliographic metadata and short quotations from the PubMed abstract, under 25 words each. The full text was not redistributed and the societies' reuse terms were not reviewed. ACC web page fetched with a plain Mozilla/5.0 user agent on 2026-10-15. Only the hash of the bytes is kept; nothing is committed. The ACC's reuse terms were not read, so public text is cite_only: public pages state the summary in the atlas's own words, with a citation and a link, and use no ACC wording. Quote rows are short evidence fragments for the reviewer.

  2. Background 2020 ACC/AHA Guideline for the Management of Patients With Valvular Heart Disease: A Report of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Joint Committee on Clinical Practice Guidelines

     Guideline · Circulation · Edition Published in Circulation 143(5):e72-e227 (issue date 2021-02-02; electronic publication 2020-12-17). PubMed bibliographic record only: PubMed holds no abstract and lists no PMC copy. The guideline text was not read. PubMed lists 4 corrections to the guideline; their text was not read. The same source also holds snapshots of two ACC pages: Part 1 of 3 of the key perspectives (dated Dec 17, 2020) and the ACC article on what changed from the 2017 update. They are ACC summaries, not the guideline text; Parts 2 and 3 were not fetched. In the page markup some less-than symbols hide the text that follows them, so only passages free of such symbols are quoted. The publisher field is the journal title as PubMed gives it. · Published 2021-02-02 · DOI: 10.1161/CIR.0000000000000923 · PMID: 33332150

     Locator

     CommentsCorrectionsList, four ErratumIn entries

     How it applies

     Shows that corrections exist. What they change is unknown.

     Retrieved

     2026-10-15T13:48:58Z

     Source effective date

     Not reported

     Source state

     Corrected

     Snapshot hash

     2ef5af022a03211aee6564fe6d8b23521016ff4b0d6d4436ae989c0963c13a08

     Reuse basis

     PubMed record and ACC page. PubMed record fetched through NCBI E-utilities on 2026-10-15. Only the hash of the bytes is kept; nothing is committed. Bibliographic metadata and short quotations from the PubMed abstract, under 25 words each. The full text was not redistributed and the societies' reuse terms were not reviewed. ACC web page fetched with a plain Mozilla/5.0 user agent on 2026-10-15. Only the hash of the bytes is kept; nothing is committed. The ACC's reuse terms were not read, so public text is cite_only: public pages state the summary in the atlas's own words, with a citation and a link, and use no ACC wording. Quote rows are short evidence fragments for the reviewer.