Andrea Lindinger & Ralph Peterli & Thomas Peters &
Beatrice Kern & Markus von Flüe & Martine Calame &
Matthias Hoch & Alex N. Eberle & Peter W. Lindinger

Vittorio Racca, MD1; Paolo Castiglioni, PhD2; Vittorino
Ripamonti, MD1; Simona Bertoli, PhD3; Maria Gaetana
Calvo, MD4; and Maurizio Ferratini, MD1

David J Holland,1,2 Sandhir B Prasad,1 Thomas H Marwick1

Ikue Kobayashi1, Eiji Ishimura2, Yoko Kato3, Senji Okuno3, Tadashi Yamamoto3, Tomoyuki Yamakawa3,
Katsuhito Mori1, Masaaki Inaba1 and Yoshiki Nishizawa1

William D. Leslie, Sora M. Ludwig, and Suzanne Morin

Myron L. Weisfeldt, MD,* Colleen M. Sitlani, MS,† Joseph P. Ornato, MD,‡ Thomas Rea, MD,†
Tom P. Aufderheide, MD,§ Daniel Davis, MD,
Jonathan Dreyer, MD,¶ Erik P. Hess, MD, MSC,#
Jonathan Jui, MD, MPH,** Justin Maloney, MD,†† George Sopko, MD, MPH,‡‡ Judy Powell, BSN,†
Graham Nichol, MD, MPH,† Laurie J. Morrison, MD, MSC,§§ for the ROC Investigators

Andreia Biolo, MD, ScDa, Rei Shibata, MD, PhDb, Noriyuki Ouchi, MD, PhDb,
Shinji Kihara, MD, PhDd, Mina Sonoda, BSd, Kenneth Walsh, PhDb, and Flora Sam, MDb,c,*

J. Thomas Heywood, MDa,*, Gregg C. Fonarow, MDb, Clyde W. Yancy, MDc,
Nancy M. Albert, PhD, RNd, Anne B. Curtis, MDe, Wendy Gattis Stough, PharmDf,g,
Mihai Gheorghiade, MDh, Mark L. McBride, PhDi, Mandeep R. Mehra, MDj,
Christopher M. O’Connor, MDg, Dwight Reynolds, MDk, and Mary Norine Walsh, MDl

Michael S. Lee, MDa,*, Tae Yang, MDa, Jashdeep Dhoot, MDa, and Hsini Liao, PhDb

Tibo Gerriets, MDa,c,†, Niko Schwarz, DipPsych, PhDa,c,†, Georg Bachmann, MDd,
Manfred Kaps, MDa, Wolf-Peter Kloevekorn, MDe, Gebhard Sammer, DipPsych, PhDb,
Marlene Tschernatsch, MDa, Rainer Nottbohm, MDa, Franz Blaes, MDa, and
Markus Schönburg, MDe,*