Peter L. Haldenwang, MD, Justus T. Strauch, MD, Igor Amann, Tobias Klein,
Anja Sterner-Kock, PhD, Hildegard Christ, and Thorsten Wahlers, MD

Peter L. Haldenwang, MD, Justus T. Strauch, MD,
Uta Hoppe, MD, Jochen Müller-Ehmsen, MD,
Michael Gawenda, MD, and Thorsten Wahlers, MD

Kirill O. Barbukhatty, MD, PhD, Sergey Y. Boldyrev, MD, Olga A. Rossokha, MD, Elena D. Kosmacheva, MD, PhD,
and Vladimir A. Porhanov, MD, PhD

Ansar Hassan, MD, PhD,a,g Alice Newman, MSc,b,g Dennis T. Ko, MD, MSc,b,c,g Ste´phane Rinfret, MD, SM,d,g
Gregory Hirsch, MD,e,g William A. Ghali, MD, PhD,f,g and Jack V. Tu, MD, PhDb,c,g New Brunswick, Ontario,
Quebec, Nova Scotia, and Alberta, Canada

Michael S. Kim, MD,a Tracy Y. Wang, MD, MHS,b Fang-Shu Ou, MS,b Andrew J. Klein, MD,c Paul A. Hudson, MD,d
John C. Messenger, MD,d Frederick A. Masoudi, MD,e John S. Rumsfeld, MD,f and P. Michael Ho, MDf Seattle, WA;
Durham, NC; St Louis, MO; and Aurora, and Denver, CO

L. Sulaiman1*, J. Hunter 1, F. Farquharson2 and H. Reddy1

Tobias Breidthardt, MD*, Thenral Socrates, MD, Markus Noveanu, MD, Theresia Klima, MD, Corinna Heinisch, MD, Tobias Reichlin, MD, Mihael Potocki, MD, Albina Nowak, MD,
Christopher Tschung, BSc, Nisha Arenja, MD, Roland Bingisser, MD, and Christian Mueller, MD

Roop Kaw, MD,a,b Adrian V. Hernandez, MD, MSc, PhD,c Iqbal Masood, MD,a A. Marc Gillinov, MD,d
Walid Saliba, MD,e and Eugene H. Blackstone, MDc,d

Jiankang Liu, Caroline S. Fox, DeMarc A. Hickson, Warren D. May, Kristen G. Hairston, J. Jeffery Carr and Herman

Arnold C.T. Ng, MBBSa,†, Matteo Bertini, MDa,†, C. Jan Willem Borleffs, MDa,
Victoria Delgado, MDa, Eric Boersma, PhDb, Sebastiaan R.D. Piers, MSa, Joep Thijssen, MDa,
Gaetano Nucifora, MDa, Miriam Shanks, MDa, See Hooi Ewe, MBBSa, Mauro Biffi, MDc,
Nico R.L. van de Veire, MD, PhDa, Dominic Y. Leung, MBBS, PhDd, Martin J. Schalij, MD, PhDa,
and Jeroen J. Bax, MD, PhDa,*