FrontMatter -- Reviewers -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Tables, Figures, and Boxes -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Executive Summary -- Overview -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Social Security Disability Programs and Procedures -- 3 Cardiovascular Disability Trends -- 4 Approaches to Revising the Cardiovascular Listings -- 5 Heart Failure, Cardiomyopathy,and Right Heart Failure -- 6 Heart Transplantation -- 7 Ischemic Heart Disease -- 8 Peripheral Artery Disease -- 9 Chronic Venous Insufficiency -- 10 Congenital Heart Disease -- 11 Pulmonary Hypertension -- 12 Valvular Heart Disease -- 13 Arrhythmias -- 14 Aneurysm or Dissection of the Aorta and Peripheral Arteries -- 15 Comorbidities -- 16 Future Directions for Improving the Listings -- Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff -- Appendix B: Literature Review -- Appendix C: Review of ACC/AHA Clinical Practice Guidelines.