The American Journal of Medicine
Volume 121, Issue 8 , Pages 664-673 , August 2008

Valvular Heart Disease: A Century of Progress

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 Dr Rahimtoola has received honoraria for educational lectures from the American College of Cardiology Foundation (Washington, DC); American College of Physicians (Philadelphia, Pa); University of California Los Angeles; University of California Irvine; Cornell University (New York, NY); Creighton University (Omaha, Neb); Thomas Jefferson University (Philadelphia, Pa); Cedars-Sinai Medical Center (Los Angeles, Calif); Harvard Medical School (Boston, Mass); University of Wisconsin (Milwaukee Campus, Wis); University of Hawaii (Honolulu, Hawaii); Cardiologists Association of Hong Kong, China; ATS (New York, NY); St Jude Medical (St Paul, Minn); Carbomedics (Austin, Tex); Merck (Whitehouse Station, NJ); Pfizer (New York, NY); and Edwards Life Sciences (Irvine, Calif).

PII: S0002-9343(08)00294-5

doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2008.03.027

The American Journal of Medicine
Volume 121, Issue 8 , Pages 664-673 , August 2008

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