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<journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">CC</journal-id>
<journal-id journal-id-type="nlm-ta">Cardiol Croat</journal-id>
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<journal-title>Cardiologia Croatica</journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title abbrev-type="pubmed">Cardiol. Croat.</abbrev-journal-title>
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<issn pub-type="ppub">1848-543X</issn>
<issn pub-type="epub">1848-5448</issn>
<publisher><publisher-name>Croatian Cardiac Society</publisher-name></publisher>
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<article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">CC 2025 20_7-8_184</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15836/ccar2025.184</article-id>
<article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Editorial</subject></subj-group>
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<article-title>CROVALV 2025</article-title>
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<contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4488-0559</contrib-id><name><surname>&#x0160;iki&#x0107;</surname><given-names>Jozica</given-names></name></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8664-3338</contrib-id><name><surname>Planini&#x0107;</surname><given-names>Zrinka</given-names></name></contrib>
<aff id="aff1">President of <institution>the Working Group on Valvular Diseases of the Croatian Cardiac Society/Congress Secretary</institution></aff>
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<corresp id="cor1">ADDRESS FOR CORRESPONDENCE: Jozica &#x0160;iki&#x0107;, Klini&#x010D;ka bolnica &#x201C;Sveti Duh&#x201D;, Sveti Duh 64, HR-10000 Zagreb, Croatia. / Phone: +385-1-371-2220 / E-mail: <email xlink:href="josicas1@gmail.com">josicas1@gmail.com</email></corresp></author-notes>
<pub-date date-type="pub" publication-format="electronic"><month>09</month><year>2025</year></pub-date>
<pub-date date-type="pub" publication-format="print"><month>09</month><year>2025</year></pub-date>
<volume>20</volume>
<issue>7-8</issue>
<fpage>184</fpage>
<lpage>184</lpage>
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<date date-type="received"><day>31</day><month>07</month><year>2025</year></date>
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<copyright-statement>Croatian Cardiac Society</copyright-statement>
<copyright-year>2025</copyright-year>
<copyright-holder>Croatian Cardiac Society</copyright-holder>
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<title>Dear Colleagues,</title>
<p>The 7<sup>th</sup> Congress of the Working Group on Valvular Diseases of the Croatian Cardiac Society with international participation, CROVALV 2025, will be held on September 11th to September 13th, 2025, at the Sheraton Hotel in Zagreb.</p>
<p>CROVALV is a biennial congress designed for cardiologists, cardiac surgeons, anesthesiologists, neurologists, residents, general practitioners, and for all those professionally involved in the treatment of valvular diseases.</p>
<p>Much has been learned and significant progress has been made since the last CROVALV congress, especially in the field of percutaneous interventional treatment as well as in cardiac surgery, treatment of coronary artery diseases, heart failure, and obesity, all of which indirectly affects improvement of cardiac valve function. The goal of the CROVALV congress is to present and discuss challenges in the approach, diagnosis, and selection of the optimal way of treating patients with valvular diseases and to help implement the latest research findings into clinical practice. In addition to invited lectures by reputable speakers from abroad, leading national experts will present the best entries among the submitted abstracts.</p>
<p>We hope that you will once again recognize the importance of this congress, and we cordially invite you to come and actively participate in jointly contributing to its quality and success.</p>
<p>Predsjednica kongresa / Congress Director:</p>
<p>izv. prof. dr. sc. Jozica &#x0160;iki&#x0107;, dr. med. / Assoc Prof Jozica &#x0160;iki&#x0107;, MD, PhD</p>
<p>predsjednica Radne skupine za bolesti sr&#x010D;anih zalistaka Hrvatskoga kardiolo&#x0161;kog dru&#x0161;tva /</p>
<p>President of the Working Group on Valvular Diseases of the Croatian Cardiac Society</p>
<p>Tajnica kongresa: / Congress Secretary</p>
<p>Zrinka Planini&#x0107;, dr.med / Zrinka Planini&#x0107;, MD</p>
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