University of Udine

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

Daniel J. Klionsky, Fábio Camargo Abdalla, Hagai Abeliovich, Robert T. Abraham, Abraham Acevedo‐Arozena, Khosrow Adeli, Lotta Agholme, Maria Agnello, Patrizia Agostinis, Julio A. Aguirre‐Ghiso, Hyung Jun Ahn, Ouardia Aït-Mohamed, Slimane Ait‐Si‐Ali, Takahiko Akematsu, Shizuo Akira, Hesham M. Al‐Younes, Munir A. Al‐Zeer, Matthew L. Albert, Roger L. Albin, Javier Alegre‐Abarrategui, Maria Francesca Aleo, Mehrdad Alirezaei, Alexandru Almasan, Maylin Almonte‐Becerril, Atsuo Amano, Ravi K. Amaravadi, Shoba Amarnath, Amal O. Amer, Nathalie Andrieu‐Abadie, Vellareddy Anantharam, David K. Ann, Shailendra Anoopkumar‐Dukie, Hiroshi Aoki, Nadezda Apostolova, Giuseppe Arancia, John P. Aris, Katsuhiko Asanuma, Nana Asare, Hisashi Ashida, Valerie Askanas, David S. Askew, Patrick Auberger, Misuzu Baba, Steven K. Backues, Eric H. Baehrecke, Ben A. Bahr, Xue-Yuan Bai, Yannick Bailly, Robert A. Baiocchi, Giulia Baldini, Walter Balduini, Andrea Ballabio, Bruce A. Bamber, Edward T. W. Bampton, Gábor Juhász, Clinton R. Bartholomew, Diane C. Bassham, Robert C. Bast, Henri Batoko, Boon-Huat Bay, Isabelle Beau, Daniel M. Béchet, Thomas J. Begley, Christian Behl, Christian Behrends, Soumeya Bekri, Bryan H. Bellaire, Linda J. Bendall, Luca Benetti, Laura Berliocchi, Henri Bernardi, Francesca Bernassola, Sébastien Besteiro, Ingrid Bhatia-Kissova, Xiaoning Bi, Martine Biard-Piechaczyk, Janice S. Blum, Lawrence Boise, Paolo Bonaldo, David L. Boone, Beat Bornhäuser, Karina Ramalho Bortoluci, Ioannis Bossis, Frédéric Bost, Jean‐Pierre Bourquin, Patricia Boya, Michaël Boyer‐Guittaut, Peter V. Bozhkov, Nathan Brady, Claudio Brancolini, Andreas Brech, Jay E. Brenman, Ana Brennand, Emery Bresnick, Patrick Brest, Dave Bridges, Molly L. Bristol, Paul S. Brookes, Eric J. Brown, John H. Brumell

Daniele Del Rio, Amanda J. Stewart, Nicoletta Pellegrini

Yehuda Adler, Philippe Charron, Massimo Imazio, Luigi P. Badano, Gonzalo Barón‐Esquivias, Jan Bogaert, Antonio Brucato, Pascal Guéret, Karin Klingel, Christos Lionis, Bernhard Maisch, Bongani M. Mayosi, Alain Pavie, Arsen Ristić, Manel Sabaté Tenas, Petar Seferovic, Karl Swedberg, Witold Tomkowski, ESC Scientific Document Group, Stephan Achenbach, Stefan Agewall, Nawwar Al‐Attar, Juan Ángel Ferrer, Michael Arad, Riccardo Asteggiano, Héctor Bueno, Alida L.P. Caforio, Scipione Carerj, Claudio Ceconi, Arturo Evangelista, Frank A. Flachskampf, George Giannakoulas, Stephan Gielen, Gilbert Habib, Philippe Kolh, Ekaterini Lambrinou, Patrizio Lancellotti, George Lazaros, Aleš Linhart, Philippe Meurin, Koen Nieman, Massimo F Piepoli, Susanna Price, Jolien W. Roos‐Hesselink, François Roubille, Frank Ruschitzka, Jaume Sauleda, Miguel Sousa‐Uva, Jens‐Uwe Voigt, José Luis Zamorano, Jose Luis Zamorano, Victor Aboyans, Stephan Achenbach, Stefan Agewall, Lina Badimón, Gonzalo Barón‐Esquivias, Helmut Baumgartner, Jeroen J. Bax, Héctor Bueno, Scipione Carerj, Verónica Dean, Çetin Erol, Donna Fitzimons, Oliver Gaemperli, Paulus Kirchhof, Philippe Kolh, Patrizio Lancellotti, Gregory Y.H. Lip, Petros Nihoyannopoulos, Massimo F Piepoli, Piotr Ponikowski, Marco Roffi, Adam Torbicki, António Vaz Carneiro, Stephan Windecker, Naltin Shuka, Hamayak Sisakian, Julia Mascherbauer, Elnur İsayev, Vadim Shumavets, Guy Van Camp, Plamen Gatzov, Jadranka Šeparović Hanževački, Hera Heracleous Moustra, Aleš Linhart, Jacob Eifer Møller, Mohamed Wafaie Aboleineen, Pentti Põder, Jukka Lehtonen, Slobodan Antov, Thibaud Damy, Bernhard Schieffer, Kyriakos Dimitriadis, Róbert Gábor Kiss, Arnar Rafnsson, Michael Arad, Salvatore Novo, Erkin М Мirrakhimov, Pēteris Stradiņš, Aušra Kavoliūnienė

Elena Arbelo, Alexandros Protonotarios, Juan R. Gimeno, Eloisa Arbustini, Roberto Barriales‐Villa, Cristina Basso, Connie R. Bezzina, Elena Biagini, Nico A. Blom, Rudolf A. de Boer, Tim De Winter, Perry Elliott, Marcus Flather, Pablo García‐Pavía, Kristina H. Haugaa, Jodie Ingles, Ruxandra Jurcuţ, Sabine Klaassen, Giuseppe Limongelli, Bart Loeys, Jens Mogensen, Iacopo Olivotto, Antonios Pantazis, Sanjay Sharma, J. Peter van Tintelen, James S. Ware, Juan Pablo Kaski, ESC Scientific Document Group, Philippe Charron, Massimo Imazio, Magdy Abdelhamid, Victor Aboyans, Michael Arad, Folkert W. Asselbergs, Riccardo Asteggiano, Zofia T. Bilińska, Damien Bonnet, Henning Bundgaard, Nuno Cardim, Jelena Čelutkienė, Maja Čikeš, Gaetano Maria De Ferrari, Veronica Dusi, Volkmar Falk, Laurent Fauchier, Estelle Gandjbakhch, Tiina Heliö, Konstantinos C. Koskinas, Dipak Kotecha, Ulf Landmesser, George Lazaros, Basil S. Lewis, Aleš Linhart, Maja‐Lisa Løchen, Benjamin Meder, Richard Mindham, James Moon, Jens Cosedis Nielsen, Steffen E. Petersen, Eva Prescott, Mary N. Sheppard, Gianfranco Sinagra, Marta Sitges, Jacob Tfelt‐Hansen, Rhian M. Touyz, Rogier J. A. Veltrop, Josef Veselka, Karim Wahbi, Arthur A.M. Wilde, Katja Zeppenfeld, B. Kichou, Hamayak Sisakian, Daniel Scherr, Bernhard Gerber, Alen Džubur, Мариана Господинова, Ivo Planinc, Hera Heracleous Moustra, David Zemánek, Morten K. Jensen, Ahmad Samir, Kairit Palm, Tiina Heliö, Karim Wahbi, Eric Schulze‐Bahr, Vlachopoulos Haralambos, Róbert Sepp, Berglind Aðalsteinsdóttir, Deirdre Ward, Miry Blich, Gianfranco Sinagra, Afrim Poniku, Olga Lunegova, Ainārs Rudzītis, Roland Kassab, Jūratė Barysienė, Steve Huijnen, Tiziana Felice, Eleonora Vataman, Nikola Pavlović