Eric J. Lehr, MD, PhD, David Zimrin, MD, Mark Vesely, MD, Patrick Odonkor, MD,
Bartley Griffith, MD, and Johannes Bonatti, MD

Robert H. Jones, MD,* Harvey White, MB, CHB, DSC,
Eric J. Velazquez, MD,† Linda K. Shaw, MHS,§
Ricardo Pietrobon, MD, PHD,‡¶ Julio A. Panza, MD,# Robert O. Bonow, MD,** George Sopko, MD,††
Christopher M. O’Connor, MD,† Jean-Lucien Rouleau, MD‡‡

Imad M. Tleyjeh, MD, MSc; Tarek Kashour, MD; Fayaz A. Hakim, MD; Valerie A. Zimmerman, PhD;
Patricia J. Erwin, MLS; Alex J. Sutton, PhD; Talal Ibrahim, MBBS(Hons), MD, FRCS(Tr&Orth)

Arthur J. Moss, M.D., W. Jackson Hall, Ph.D., David S. Cannom, M.D., Helmut Klein, M.D., Mary W. Brown, M.S.,
James P. Daubert, M.D., N.A. Mark Estes III, M.D., Elyse Foster, M.D., Henry Greenberg, M.D.,
Steven L. Higgins, M.D., Marc A. Pfeffer, M.D., Ph.D., Scott D. Solomon, M.D., David Wilber, M.D.,
and Wojciech Zareba, M.D., Ph.D., for the MADIT-CRT Trial Investigators*

Jiri Bronsky, MD, PhD1,2* Jara Nedvidkova, PhD3 Hana Krasnicanova, PhD1 Marie Vesela, MD1 Jana Schmidtova, MD4 Jiri Koutek, MD4 Richard Kellermayer, MD, PhD5 Martin Chada, MD, PhD2,6 Zdenek Kabelka, MD7 Michal Hrdlicka, MD, PhD4 Jiri Nevoral, MD, PhD1
Richard Prusa, MD, PhD2

Michael Frank, MDa,b,*, Victor Aboyans, MD, PhDa,c, Alexandre Le Guyader, MDa,c, Isabelle Orsel, MDa, Philippe Lacroix, MD, PhDa,c, Elisabeth Cornu, MD, PhD,a,c
and Marc Laskar, MD, PhDa,c

Michael Frank, MDa,b,*, Victor Aboyans, MD, PhDa,c, Alexandre Le Guyader, MDa,c,
Isabelle Orsel, MDa, Philippe Lacroix, MD, PhDa,c, Elisabeth Cornu, MD, PhD,a,c
and Marc Laskar, MD, PhDa,c

D E Thomas, S A Exton, Z R Yousef

Takeshi Kinoshita, MD, Tohru Asai, MD, PhD, Osamu Nishimura, MD,
Tomoaki Suzuki, MD, PhD, Atsushi Kambara, MD, and Keiji Matsubayashi, MD, PhD

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