Editors and Authors
Editors
A John Camm MD FESC FRCP FACC FAHA FCGC
Professor of Clinical Cardiology, Chairman of the Division of Cardiac and Vascular Sciences, St George’s University of London, London, UK
Thomas F Lüscher MD FRCP
Professor and Head of Cardiology, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
Patrick W Serruys MD PhD FESC FACC
Professor of Medicine and Interventional Cardiology, Head of the Department of Interventional Cardiology, Thoraxcenter, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Authors
Stephan Achenbach MD FESC
Department of Internal Medicine, University of Erlangen,
Erlangen, Germany
Etienne Aliot MD FESC FACC
Department of Cardiology, University of Nancy,
Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France
Maurits A Allessie MD PhD
Physiology Department, Maastricht University,
Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht, Maastricht,
The Netherlands
Bert Andersson MD PhD
Department of Cardiology, Sahlgrenska University Hospital,
Gothenburg, Sweden
Annalisa Angelini MD
Department of Cardiovascular Pathology, Universita di
Padova, Via A. Gabelli 61, Padova, Italy
Stefan Anker MD PhD
Clinical Research Fellow, Department of Cardiac Medicine,
National Heart and Lung Institute, London, UK
Velislav N Batchvarov MD
Department of Cardiac and Vascular Sciences, St George’s
Medical School, London, UK
Iris Baumgartner MD
Swiss Cardiovascular Center, Division of Angiology,
University Hospital, 3010-Bern, Switzerland
Antoni Bayés de Luna MD
Director of Cardiology Department, Hospital Santa Creu i
Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain
Giancarlo Biamino MD
Department of Clinical and Interventional Angiology,
Heartcenter Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Jean-Jacques Blanc MD FESC
Département de Cardiologie, Hôpital de la Cavale Blanche,
Brest, France
Carina Blomström-Lundqvist MD PhD FESC FACC
Department of Cardiology, University Hospital in Uppsala,
Uppsala, Sweden
Giacomo G Boccuzzi MD
Unità di Cardiologia Invasiva, Ospedale San Giovanni Bosco,
Torino, Italy
Eric Boersma MSc PhD FESC
Associate Professor of Clinical Cardiovascular Epidemiology,
Department of Cardiology, Erasmus Medical Center,
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Henri Bounameaux MD
Professor of Medicine and Director of Division of Angiology
and Homeostasis, University Hospital of Geneva, Geneva,
Switzerland
Günter Breithardt MD FESC FACC
Professor of Medicine, Department of Cardiology and
Angiology, University of Münster, Münster, Germany
Michele Brignole MD FESC
Chief of Department of Cardiology, Department of
Cardiology, Ospedali de Tigullion, Lavagna, Italy,
Cardiovascular Center, Onze Lieve Vrouw Hospital, Aalst,
Belgium
Dirk Brutsaert MD
Laboratory of Physiology, University of Antwerp, Antwerp,
Belgium
Harry R Büller MD PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Vascular Medicine,
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
José A Cabrera MD PhD
Director of Arrhythmia Unit, Department of Cardiology,
Fundacion Jimenez Diaz, Madrid, Spain
Paolo G Camici MD FESC FACC FAHA FRCP
Professor of Cardiovascular Pathophysiology, Imperial
College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Hammersmith
Hospital, London, UK
Alessandro Capucci MD
Centro Studi, Associazione Cardiologi Ospedalieri, FIRE
Study Investigators, Firenze, Italy
Raffaele De Caterina MD PhD
Director of University Cardiology Division, Università degli
Studi di Chieti G D’Annunzio, Chieti, Italy
Christian de Chillou MD PhD
Department of Cardiology, University of Nancy, Hopital de
Brabois, Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France
Francesco Cosentino MD PhD
Division of Cardiology, 2nd Faculty of Medicine, La Sapienza
University, Ospedale Sant’ Andrea, Rome, Italy
Filippo Crea MD PhD FESC FACC
Professor of Cardiology, Director, Institute of Cardiology,
Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy
Harry JGM Crijns MD PhD FESC
Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Maastricht,
Maastricht, The Netherlands
Jean Dallongeville MD PhD
Head of Laboratory, Arteriosclerosis Department, Pasteur
Institute, Lille, France
Werner G Daniel MD FESC FACC
Professor of Internal Medicine, Medical Clinic II/Cardiology,
University Clinic Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
John E Deanfield MD FRCP
Professor of Cardiology, Great Ormond Street Hospital,
London, UK
Maria Cristina Digilio MD
Chief of Dysmorphology, Medical Genetics, Bambino Gesu
Hospital, Rome, Italy
Robert Dion MD PhD
Professor and Head of Department of Cardiothoracic
Surgery, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden,
The Netherlands
Lars Eckardt MD
Klinik und Poliklinik C, Universitätsklinikum
(Kardiologie/Angiologie), Münster,
Germany
Raimund Erbel MD
Professor of Cardiology, Department of Cardiology, West-
German Heart Centre, University Duisburg-Essen
Robert Fagard MD PhD
Professor of Medicine, Hypertension Department, University
of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
Erling Falk MD PhD
Professor of Cardiovascular Pathology, Department of
Cardiology, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
Jerónimo Farré MD PhD FESC
Professor and Chair, Department of Cardiology, Fundacion
Jimenez Diaz, Madrid, Spain
Pim J de Feyter MD PhD
Cardiologist, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam,
The Netherlands
Frank A Flachskampf MD FESC FACC
Professor of Internal Medicine, Medical Clinic II/Cardiology,
University Clinic Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
Keith AA Fox MD FRCP FESC
Professor of Cardiology and Head of Medical and
Radiological Sciences, Department of Cardiological
Research, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Kim Fox MD FRCP FESC
Professor of Clinical Cardiology, Department of Cardiology,
Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK
Pietro Francia MD
Division of Cardiology, 2nd Faculty of Medicine, University
La Sapienza, Ospedale Sant’ Andrea, Rome, Italy
Nazzareno Galiè MD
Institute of Cardiology, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Roy Gardner MD
Department of Cardiology, Western Infirmary, Glasgow, UK
Stephan Gielen MD
Senior Resident, Department of Cardiology, University of
Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Christianne JM de Groot MD PhD
Gynaecologist/Obstetrician, Department of Obstetrics
and Gynaecology, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam,
The Netherlands
Rainer Hambrecht MD
Department of Cardiology, University of Leipzig, Heart
Centre, Leipzig, Germany
Christian W Hamm MD
Professor of Medicine and Medical Director, Abt. Für
Kardiologie, Kerckhoff Clinic & Max-Planck-Institute,
Bad Nauheim, Germany
Liv Hatle MD
Norwegian University of Technology and Science,
Trondheim, Norway
Axel Haverich MD
Hannover School of Medicine, Department of Cardiology,
Hannover, Germany
Christopher Heeschen MD
Professor for Oncology and Transplantation Medicine,
Experimental Surgery, Department of Surgery, Ludwig-
Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
Otto M Hess MD
Department of Cardiology, Universitätsklinik Inselspital,
Bern, Switzerland
Aroon Hingorani MA PhD FRCP
Senior Fellow and Reader in Clinical Pharmacology, Centre
for Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine,
University College London, London, UK
Vibeke E Hjortdal MD DMSc PhD
Professor of Congenital Heart Surgery, Department of
Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital of
Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
Stefan H Hohnloser MD
Professor of Medicine, Department of Cardiology, JW Goethe
University, Frankfurt, Germany
Stephen Humphries MD
Cardiovascular Genetics, British Heart Foundation
Laboratories, Royal Free and University College Medical
School, London, UK
Bernard Iung MD
Professor of Cardiology, Cardiology Department, Bichat
Hospital, Paris, France
Pierre Jaïs MD
Service du Professeur Clémenty, Hôpital du Haut Levêque,
Bordeaux, France
Lukas Kappenberger MD
Médecin Chef, Division de Cardiologie, Centre Hospitalier
Universitaire Vaudois Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Philipp A Kaufmann MD
Nuclear Medicine and Cardiology, University Hospital
Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Sverre E Kjeldsen MD PhD FAHA
Chief Physician and Professor, Department of Cardiology,
Ullevaal University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
Michel Komajda MD FESC
Département de Cardiologie, Pitié Salpêtrière Hospital,
Paris, France
Paul Kotwinski MD
Medical Genetics, Bambino Gesu Hospital, Rome, Italy
Gaetano A Lanza MD FESC
Università Cattolica di Roma, Istituto di Cardiologia, Rome,
Italy
Christophe Leclercq MD PhD
Department de Cardiologie, Centre Cardio-pneumologique,
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Pontchaillou, Rennes, France
Cecilia Linde MD PhD FESC
Head of Cardiology, Department of Cardiology, Karolinska
Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Gregory YH Lip MD FRCP DFM FACC FESC
Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Director of
Haemostasis Thrombosis and Vascular Biology Unit,
University Department of Medicine, City Hospital,
Birmingham, UK
Raymond MacAllister MA MD FRCP
Reader in Clinical Pharmacology, Centre for Clinical
Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, University College
London, London, UK
Felix Mahler MD
Professor of Angiology, Cardiovascular Department,
University Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Bernhard Maisch MD FESC FACC
Professor and Director of Internal Medicine and Cardiology,
Phillips University, Marburg, Germany
Marek Malik PhD MD DSc DScMed FACC FESC
Department of Cardiac and Vascular Sciences, St George’s
Hospital Medical School, London, UK
Guiseppe Mancia MD PhD
Professor of Dipartimento di Medicina, Universita Milano-
Bicocca in Ospedale San Gerardo Monza, Monza, Italy
Bruno Marino MD
Professor of Pediatrics and Chief of Pediatric Oncology,
Department of Pediatrics, University La Sapienza, Rome,
Italy
Carlo Di Mario MD
Consultant Cardiologist, Catheterization Laboratory, Royal
Brompton Hospital, London, UK
William McKenna MD FACC FESC
Department of Cardiology, The Heart Hospital, London,
UK
John McMurray BSc (Hons) MBChB (Hons) MD FRCP
FESC FACC
Professor of Medical Cardiology, Department of Cardiology,
Western Infirmary, Glasgow, UK
Raad H Mohiaddin MD PhD FRCR FRCP FESC
Consultant and Reader in Cardiovascular Imaging
Royal Brompton Hospita and Imperial College London
John Morgan MA MD FRCP
Consultant Cardiologist, Wessex Cardiothoracic Centre,
Southampton University Hospital, Southampton, UK
Carlo Napolitano MD PhD
Senior Research Associate, Molecular Cardiology,
Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri, Pavia, Italy
Christoph A Nienaber MD
Head of Department of Cardiology and Vascular Medicine,
Universitats Klinikum Rostock, Rostock, Germany
S Bertil Olsson MD PhD FESC FAHA MRPhS
Professor, Department of Cardiology, University Hospital
Lund, Lund, Sweden
Dudley J Pennell MD FRCP FACC FESC
Director of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Unit, Royal
Brompton Hospital, London, UK
John Pepper MA MChir FRCS
Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cardiac Department,
Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK
Joep Perk MD FESC
Consultant, Department of Internal Medicine, Public Health
Department, Oskarshamn, Sweden
Luc Pierard MD PhD FESC FACC
Professor of Medicine and Head of Department of
Cardiology, Service de Cardiologie, University Hospital Sart-
Tilman, Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium
Patrizia Presbitero MD
Chief of Interventional Cardiology Department, Istituto
Clinico Humanitas, Rozzano, Italy
Silvia G Priori MD PhD
Associate Professor of Cardiology, University of Pavia,
Pavia, Italy
Henry Purcell MB PhD
Senior Fellow in Cardiology, Department of Cardiology,
Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK
Henrik M Reims MD
Department of Cardiology, Ullevaal University Hospital,
Oslo, Norway
Arsen D Ristic MD FESC
Department of Cardiology, Belgrade University Medical
School and Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases of the
Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro
Jos Roelandt MD PhD FESC FACC FAHA
Professor of Cardiology, Department of Cardiology, Erasmus
Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Marco Roffi MD
Head of Cardiology, University Hospital Zürich, Zürich,
Switzerland
Jolien W Roos-Hesselink PhD MD
Cardiologist, Department of Cardiology, Erasmus Medical
Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Annika Rosengren MD
Deparment of Medicine, Sahlgrenska University
ospital/Ostra, Goteborg, Sweden
Lars Ryden MD FRCP DESC FACC
Professor of Cardiology, Department of Cardiology,
Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Hugo Saner MD
Head of Cardiovascuar Prevention and Rehabilitation
Inselspital, Swiss Cardiovascular Center Bern,
Bern, Switzerland
Irina Savelieva MD
Division of Cardiac and Vascular Sciences, St George’s
Hospital Medical School, London, UK
Dierk Scheinert MD
Department of Clinical and Interventional Angiology,
Heartcenter Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Sebastian M Schellong MD
Head of Division of Angiology, Division of Vascular
Medicine, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden,
Germany
Andrej Schmidt MD
Department of Clinical and Interventional Angiology,
Heartcenter Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Heinz-Peter Schultheiss MD
Professor and Director Cardiology and Pulmonology,
University Hospital Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany
Peter J Schwartz MD
Professor of Department of Cardiology, Policlinico S. Metteo
IRCCS, Pavia, Italy
Udo P Sechtem MD
Professor and Head, Department of Cardiology, Robert Bosch
Medical Centre, Stuttgart, Germany
Co-chairman of Cardiology, Department of Cardiology,
University Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Mary N Sheppard MD FRCPath
Department of Histopathology, Royal Brompton Hospital,
London, UK
Gerald Simonneau MD
Service de Pneumologie, Hôpital Antoine Béclère,
Clamart, France
Jordi Soler-Soler MD FESC FACC
Professor of Cardiology, Department of Cardiology,
University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain
Richard Sutton DScMed FRCP FESC
Consultant Cardiologist, Royal Brompton Hospital,
London, UK
Karl Swedberg MD PhD
Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Sahlgrenska
University Hospital/Östra, Gothenburg, Sweden
William D Toff BSc MD MRCP
Senior Lecturer in Cardiology, University of Leicester,
Leicester, UK
Marko Turina MD
Professor of Surgery, University Hospital, Zurich,
Switzerland
S Richard Underwood MD FRCP FRCR FESC FACC
Professor of Cardiac Imaging, National Heart and Lung
Institute, Imperial College, Royal Brompton Hospital,
London, UK
Alec Vahanian MD
Head of Department, Cardiology Department, Hôpital
Bichat, Paris, France
Patrick Vallance PhD FRCP
Professor, Centre for Clinical Pharmacology, The Rayne
Institute, London, UK
Hein JJ Wellens MD PhD FESC FACC
Interuniversity Institute of Cardiology, Maastricht,
The Netherlands
Frans Van de Werf MD PhD FESC FACC FAHA
Professor and Head of Department of Cardiology,
Gasthuisberg University Hospital, Leuven, Belgium
William Wijns MD PhD
Cardiovascular Centre, Onze-Lieve-Vrouw Ziekenhuis, Aalst,
Belgium
Robert Yates MBBCh FRCP
Consultant Fetal and Paediatric Cardiologist, Cardiothoracic
Department, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children,
London, UK
Felix Zijlstra MD PhD
Director of Coronary Care Unit and Catheterization
Laboratory, Cardiology Department, Academic Hospital
Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands