Daniela Lamers,1 Susanne Famulla,1 Nina Wronkowitz,1 Sonja Hartwig,2 Stefan Lehr,2
D. Margriet Ouwens,2 Kristin Eckardt,1 Jean M. Kaufman,3 Mikael Ryden,4 Stefan Müller,5
Franz-Georg Hanisch,5 Johannes Ruige,3 Peter Arner,4 Henrike Sell,1 and Juergen Eckel1

Neriman Defne Altintas, MD1; Kadriye Aydin, MD2;
Melda Aybar Türkoglu, MD3; Osman Abbasoglu, MD4;
and Arzu Topeli, MD5
Financial disclosure: none declared.

P. Anagnostis,1 D. Selalmatzidou,1 S. A. Polyzos,1 A. Panagiotou,1 A. Slavakis,2 A. Panagiotidou,2
V. G. Athyros,3 A. Karagiannis,3 D. P. Mikhailidis,4 M. Kita1

Duk-Woo Park, MD,* Young-Hak Kim, MD,* Sung-Cheol Yun, PHD,† Hae Geun Song, MD,*
Jung-Min Ahn, MD,* Jun-Hyok Oh, MD,* Won-Jang Kim, MD,* Jong-Young Lee, MD,*
Soo-Jin Kang, MD,* Seung-Whan Lee, MD,* Cheol Whan Lee, MD,* Seong-Wook Park, MD,*
Seung-Jung Park, MD*

Martin Strueber, MD,* Gerry O’Driscoll, MD, PHD,† Paul Jansz, MB, PHD,‡ Asghar Khaghani, MD,§
Wayne C. Levy, MD,
George M. Wieselthaler, MD,¶ for the HeartWare Investigators
Hannover, Germany; Perth and Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia; London, United Kingdom;
Seattle, Washington; and Vienna, Austria

Hala O. El-Mesallamy, Prof.1, Nadia M. Hamdy, PhD1,
Tarek M. Salman, Prof.2, and Sherine M. Ibrahim, B.Pharm Sc.3

Giuseppe Vergaro, MDa, Michele Emdin, MD, PhDa, Annalisa Iervasi, BScb, Luc Zyw, BSca,
Alessandra Gabutti, MDa, Roberta Poletti, MDa, Chiara Mammini, MDa, Alberto Giannoni, MDa,
Marianna Fontana, MDa, and Claudio Passino, MDa,c,*

Wilfried Mullens, MD, PhDa,b,*, Jacek Kepa, MSb, Philippe De Vusser, MDa, Jan Vercammen, RNa,
Maximo Rivero-Ayerza, MD, PhDa, Patrick Wagner, PhDb, Joseph Dens, MD, PhDa,
Mathias Vrolix, MDa, Pieter Vandervoort, MDa, and W.H. Wilson Tang, MDc

P. Anagnostis,1 D. Selalmatzidou,1 S. A. Polyzos,1 A. Panagiotou,1 A. Slavakis,2 A. Panagiotidou,2
V. G. Athyros,3 A. Karagiannis,3 D. P. Mikhailidis,4 M. Kita1

Julie Houle a,b, OdetteDoyon b, NathalieVadeboncoeur a,c, GinetteTurbide