Ailin Barseghian, MD,* Dipika Gawande,† Mandeep Bajaj, MD‡
Irvine, California; and College Station and Houston, Texas

Paul A. Kurlansky, MD, Ernest A. Traad, MD, Malcolm J. Dorman, MD,
David L. Galbut, MD, Melinda Zucker, BSN, and George Ebra, EdD

Umberto Benedetto, MD, PhD, Giovanni Melina, MD, PhD, Roberta di Bartolomeo, MD,
Emiliano Angeloni, MD, Davide Sansone, MD, Giulia Falaschi, MD,
Fabio Capuano, MD, Cosimo Comito, MD, Antonino Roscitano, MD, and
Riccardo Sinatra, MD

Lars Lind, MD, PhD; Lars Berglund, PhD; Anders Larsson, MD, PhD; Johan Sundstro¨m, MD, PhD

Thomas A. Schwann, MD, Shuab Omer, MD, and
Robert H. Habib, PhD

A Anzueto,1 F Frutos-Vivar,2 A Esteban,2 N Bensalami,1 D Marks,1 K Raymondos,3
C Apezteguı ´a,4 Y Arabi,5 J Hurtado,6 M Gonza´lez,7 V Tomicic,8 F Abroug,9
J Elizalde,10 N Cakar,11 P Pelosi,12 N D Ferguson;13 for the Ventila group

Aysha Arshad, MD,* Arthur J. Moss, MD,† Elyse Foster, MD,‡ Luigi Padeletti, MD,§
Alon Barsheshet, MD,† Ilan Goldenberg, MD,† Henry Greenberg, MD,* W. Jackson Hall, PHD,†
Scott McNitt, MS,† Wojciech Zareba, MD, PHD,† Scott Solomon, MD,
Jonathan S. Steinberg, MD,*
on behalf of the MADIT-CRT Executive Committee
New York and Rochester, New York; San Francisco, California; Florence, Italy; and Boston, Massachusetts

Nicholas L.M. Cruden, PhD, MBChB, MRCP,a,b,c Kristin Morch,a Daniel R. Wong, MD, MPH, FRCSC,b
W. Peter Klinke, MD, FRCPC,a,b John Ofiesh, MD, FRCSC,b and J. David Hilton, MD, FRCPCa,b British Columbia,
Canada; and Edinburgh, United Kingdom

H. Leppikangas1*, K. Ja¨rvela¨ 2, T. Sisto2, P. Maaranen2, M. Virtanen 2, P. Lehto2, S. Karlsson 3,
T. Ko¨o¨ bi 4 and L. Lindgren1

David J. Cohen, M.D., Ben Van Hout, Ph.D., Patrick W. Serruys, M.D., Ph.D.,
Friedrich W. Mohr, M.D., Ph.D., Carlos Macaya, M.D.,
Peter den Heijer, M.D., Ph.D., M.M. Vrakking, M.D., Kaijun Wang, Ph.D.,
Elizabeth M. Mahoney, Sc.D., Salma Audi, M.Sc., Katrin Leadley, M.D.,
Keith D. Dawkins, M.D., and A. Pieter Kappetein, M.D., Ph.D.,
for the Synergy between PCI with Taxus and Cardiac Surgery
(SYNTAX) Investigators