University Hospital Centre Zagreb

Authors/Task Force Members:, Joep Perk, Guy De Backer, H. Gohlke, Ian Graham, Željko Reiner, Monique Verschuren, Christian Albus, Pascale Benlian, G. Boysen, Renata Cífková, Christi Deaton, S. Ebrahim, Michael Fisher, Giuseppe Germanò, Richard Hobbs, A. Hoes, S. Karadeniz, Alessandro Mezzani, Eva Prescott, Lars Rydén, M. Scherer, Mikko Syvänne, Wilma J.M. Scholte op Reimer, Christian Vrints, David Wood, José Luis Zamorano, F Zannad, Other experts who contributed to parts of the guidelines:, Marie Therese Cooney, Jeroen J. Bax, H. Baumgartner, Claudio Ceconi, V. Dean, Christi Deaton, Robert Fagard, Christian Funck‐Brentano, David Hasdai, A. Hoes, Paulus Kirchhof, Juhani Knuuti, Philippe Kolh, Theresa A. McDonagh, Bruno Moulin, Bogdan A. Popescu, Z. Reiner, U Sechtem, P. A. Sirnes, Michał Tendera, Adam Torbicki, A. Vahanian, Stephan Windecker, Document Reviewers, Christian Funck‐Brentano, P. A. Sirnes, Victor Aboyans, Eduardo Alegría Ezquerra, Colin Baigent, Carlos Brotons, G. Burell, Antonio Ceriello, Johan De Sutter, J. Deckers, Stefano Del Prato, H.‐C. Diener, Donna Fitzsimons, Zlatko Fras, Rainer Hambrecht, Piotr Jankowski, U Keil, Mike Kirby, Mogens Lytken Larsen, Giuseppe Mancia, Athanasios Manolis, John J.V. McMurray, A. Pajak, Alexander Parkhomenko, Loukianos Rallidis, Fausto Rigo, Evangelista Rocha, Luís M. Ruilope, Enno T. van der Velde, Diego Vanuzzo, Margus Viigimaa, Massimo Volpe, Olov Wiklund, C. Wolpert

Authors Task Force Members, John J.V. McMurray, Stamatis Adamopoulos, Stefan D. Anker, Angelo Auricchio, Michael Böhm, Kenneth Dickstein, Volkmar Falk, G. Filippatos, Cândida Fonseca, M. A. Gomez-Sanchez, Tiny Jaarsma, Lars Køber, G Y H Lip, Aldo P. Maggioni, Alexander Parkhomenko, Burkert Pieske, Bogdan A. Popescu, Per K. Rønnevik, Frans H. Rutten, Juerg Schwitter, Petar Seferović, Janina Stępińska, Pedro T. Trindade, Adriaan A. Voors, Faı̈ez Zannad, Andreas M. Zeiher, Jeroen J. Bax, H. Baumgartner, Claudio Ceconi, V. Dean, Christi Deaton, Robert Fagard, Christian Funck‐Brentano, David Hasdai, Arno W. Hoes, Paulus Kirchhof, Juhani Knuuti, Philippe Kolh, Theresa A. McDonagh, Bruno Moulin, Bogdan A. Popescu, Željko Reiner, Udo Sechtem, P. A. Sirnes, Michał Tendera, Adam Torbicki, Alec Vahanian, Stephan Windecker, Document Reviewers, Theresa A. McDonagh, Udo Sechtem, Luis Almenar Bonet, Panayiotis Avraamides, Hisham A. Ben Lamin, Michele Brignole, António Coca, Peter J. Cowburn, Henry Dargie, Perry Elliott, Frank A. Flachskampf, Giuseppe Guida, S Hardman, Bernard Iung, Béla Merkely, Christian Mueller, J. Nanas, Olav Wendelboe Nielsen, Stein Ørn, John Parissis, Piotr Ponikowski

Frank L.J. Visseren, François Mach, Yvo M. Smulders, David Carballo, Konstantinos C. Koskinas, Maria Bäck, Athanase Bénétos, Alessandro Biffi, José-Manuel Boavida, Davide Capodanno, Bernard Cosyns, Carolyn Crawford, Constantinos H. Davos, Ileana Désormais, Emanuele Di Angelantonio, Oscar H. Franco, Sigrun Halvorsen, Richard Hobbs, Monika Hollander, Ewa A. Jankowska, Matthias Michal, Simona Sacco, Naveed Sattar, Lâle Tokgözoğlu, Serena Tonstad, Konstantinos Tsioufis, Ineke van Dis, Isabelle C. Van Gelder, Christoph Wanner, Bryan Williams, ESC Scientific Document Group, Guy De Backer, Vera Regitz‐Zagrosek, Anne Hege Aamodt, Magdy Abdelhamid, Victor Aboyans, Christian Albus, Riccardo Asteggiano, Magnus Bäck, Michael A. Borger, Carlos Brotons, Jelena Čelutkienė, Renata Cífková, Maja Čikeš, Francesco Cosentino, Nikolaos Dagres, Tine De Backer, Dirk De Bacquer, Victoria Delgado, Hester M. den Ruijter, Paul Dendale, Heinz Drexel, Volkmar Falk, Laurent Fauchier, Brian A. Ference, Jean Ferrières, Marc Ferrini, Miles Fisher, Danilo Fliser, Zlatko Fras, Dan Gaiță, Simona Giampaoli, Stephan Gielen, Ian Graham, Catriona Jennings, Torben Jørgensen, Alexandra Kautzky‐Willer, Maryam Kavousi, Wolfgang Köenig, А. О. Конради, Dipak Kotecha, Ulf Landmesser, Madalena Lettino, Basil S. Lewis, Aleš Linhart, Maja‐Lisa Løchen, Konstantinos Makrilakis, Giuseppe Mancia, Pedro Marques‐Vidal, John W. McEvoy, Paul McGreavy, Béla Merkely, Lis Neubeck, Jens Cosedis Nielsen, Joep Perk, Steffen E. Petersen, Anna Sonia Petronio, Massimo Piepoli, Nana Goar Pogosova, Eva Prescott, Kausik K. Ray, Željko Reiner, Dimitrios Richter, Lars Rydén, Е. V. Shlyakhto, Marta Sitges, Miguel Sousa‐Uva, Isabella Sudano, Monica Tiberi, Rhian M. Touyz

Authors/Task Force Members, A. John Camm, Paulus Kirchhof, Gregory Y.H. Lip, Ulrich Schotten, Irene Savelieva, Sabine Ernst, Isabelle C. Van Gelder, Nawwar Al‐Attar, Gerhard Hindricks, Bernard Prendergast, Hein Heidbüchel, Ottavio Alfieri, Annalisa Angelini, Dan Atar, Paolo Colonna, Raffaele De Caterina, Johan De Sutter, Andreas Goette, Bülent Görenek, Magnus Heldal, Stefan H. Hohloser, Philippe Kolh, J.‐Y. Le Heuzey, Piotr Ponikowski, Frans H. Rutten, Alec Vahanian, Angelo Auricchio, Jeroen J. Bax, Claudio Ceconi, V. Dean, Gerasimos Filippatos, Christian Funck‐Brentano, Richard Hobbs, Patricia M. Kearney, Theresa A. McDonagh, Bogdan A. Popescu, Željko Reiner, Udo Sechtem, Per Anton Sirnes, Michał Tendera, P. E. Vardas, Petr Widimský, Document Reviewers, P. E. Vardas, Vazha Agladze, E Aliot, T. Balabanski, Carina Blomström‐Lundqvist, Alessandro Capucci, Harry J.G.M. Crijns, Björn Dahlöf, Thierry Folliguet, Michael Glikson, Marnix Goethals, Dietrich C. Gulba, Siew Yen Ho, Robert J.M. Klautz, Sedat Köse, John J.V. McMurray, Pasquale Perrone Filardi, Pekka Raatikainen, M. J. Salvador, Martin J. Schalij, A. Shpektor, João de Sousa, Janina Stępińska, Hasso Uuetoa, José Luis Zamorano, Igor Zupan

Robert A. Byrne, Xavier Rosselló, J J Coughlan, Emanuele Barbato, Colin Berry, Alaide Chieffo, Marc J. Claeys, Gheorghe‐Andrei Dan, Marc R. Dweck, Mary Galbraith, Martine Gilard, Lynne Hinterbuchner, Ewa A. Jankowska, Peter Jüni, Takeshi Kimura, Vijay Kunadian, Margrét Leósdóttir, Roberto Lorusso, Roberto F.E. Pedretti, Angelos G. Rigopoulos, María Rubini Giménez, Hölger Thiele, Pascal Vranckx, Sven Waßmann, Nanette K. Wenger, Borja Ibáñez, ESC Scientific Document Group, Sigrun Halvorsen, Stefan James, Magdy Abdelhamid, Victor Aboyans, Nina Ajmone Marsan, Sotiris Antoniou, Riccardo Asteggiano, Maria Bäck, Davide Capodanno, Rubén Casado-Arroyo, Salvatore Cassese, Jelena Čelutkienė, Maja Čikeš, Jean-Philippe Collet, Grégory Ducrocq, Volkmar Falk, Laurent Fauchier, Tobias Geisler, Diana A. Gorog, Lene Holmvang, Tiny Jaarsma, Hywel Wynne Jones, Lars Køber, Konstantinos C Koskinas, Dipak Kotecha, Konstantin A. Krychtiuk, Ulf Landmesser, George Lazaros, Basil S. Lewis, Bertil Lindahl, Aleš Linhart, Maja‐Lisa Løchen, Mamas A. Mamas, John W. McEvoy, Borislava Mihaylova, Richard Mindham, Christian Mueller, Lis Neubeck, Josef Niebauer, Jens Cosedis Nielsen, Alexander Niessner, Valeria Paradies, Agnes A Pasquet, Steffen E. Petersen, Eva Prescott, Amina Rakisheva, Bianca Rocca, Giuseppe Rosano, Leyla Elif Sade, François Schiele, Jolanta M. Siller‐Matula, Christian Sticherling, Robert F. Storey, Matthias Thielmann, Christiaan Vrints, Stephan Windecker, Rune Wiseth, Adam Witkowski, Mohammed El Amine Bouzid, Hamlet Hayrapetyan, Bernhard Metzler, Patrizio Lancellotti, Mugdim Bajrić, Kiril Karamfiloff, Andreas Mitsis, Petr Ošťádal, Rikke Sørensen, Tamer Elwasify, Toomas Marandi, Essi Ryödi, Jean-Philippe Collet, Archil Chukhrukidze, Julinda Mehilli