University of Ljubljana

Giuseppe Mancia, Robert Fagard, Krzysztof Narkiewicz, Josep Redón, Alberto Zanchetti, Michael Böhm, Thierry Christiaens, Renata Cífková, Guy De Backer, Anna F. Dominiczak, Maurizio Galderisi, Diederick E. Grobbee, Tiny Jaarsma, Paulus Kirchhof, Sverre E. Kjeldsen, Stéphane Laurent, Athanasios J Manolis, Peter M. Nilsson, Luís M. Ruilope, Roland E Schmieder, Per Anton Sirnes, Peter Sleight, Margus Viigimaa, Bernard Waeber, Faı̈ez Zannad, Josep Redon, Anna F. Dominiczak, Krzysztof Narkiewicz, Peter M. Nilsson, Michel Burnier, Margus Viigimaa, Ettore Ambrosioni, Mark Caufield, António Coca, Michael Hecht Olsen, Roland E Schmieder, Costas Tsioufis, Philippe van de Borne, Jose Luis Zamorano, Stephan Achenbach, Helmut Baumgartner, Jeroen J. Bax, Héctor Bueno, Veronica Dean, Christi Deaton, Çetin Erol, Robert Fagard, Roberto Ferrari, David Hasdai, Arno W Hoes, Paulus Kirchhof, Juhani Knuuti, Philippe Kolh, Patrizio Lancellotti, Aleš Linhart, Petros Nihoyannopoulos, Massimo Piepoli, Piotr Ponikowski, Per Anton Sirnes, Juan Tamargo, Michał Tendera, Adam Torbicki, William Wijns, Stephan Windecker, Denis Clément, António Coca, Thierry Gillebert, Michał Tendera, Enrico Agabiti Rosei, Ettore Ambrosioni, Stefan D Anker, Johann Bauersachs, Jana Brguljan Hitij, Mark J. Caulfield, Marc De Buyzere, Sabina De Geest, Geneviève Dérumeaux, Serap Erdine, Csaba Farsang, Christian Funck‐Brentano, Vjekoslav Gerc, Giuseppe Germanò, Stephan Gielen, Herman Haller, Arno W Hoes, Jens Jordan, Thomas Kahan, Michel Komajda, Dragan Lović, Heiko Mahrholdt, Michael Hecht Olsen, Jan Östergren, Gianfranco Parati, Joep Perk, Jorge Polónia, Bogdan A Popescu, Zeljko Reiner, Lars Rydén, Yu.M. Sіrenko, Alice Stanton

Clotilde Théry, Kenneth W. Witwer, Elena Aïkawa, María José Alcaraz, Johnathon D. Anderson, Ramaroson Andriantsitohaina, Anna Antoniou, Tanina Arab, Fabienne Archer, Georgia K. Atkin‐Smith, D. Craig Ayre, Jean‐Marie Bach, Daniel Bachurski, Hossein Baharvand, Leonora Balaj, Shawn Baldacchino, Natalie Bauer, Amy A. Baxter, Mary Bebawy, Carla Beckham, Apolonija Bedina Zavec, Abderrahim Benmoussa, Anna C. Berardi, Paolo Bergese, Ewa Bielska, Cherie Blenkiron, Sylwia Bobis‐Wozowicz, Éric Boilard, Wilfrid Boireau, Antonella Bongiovanni, Francesc E. Borràs, Steffi Bösch, Chantal M. Boulanger, Xandra O. Breakefield, Andrew Breglio, Meadhbh Á. Brennan, David R. Brigstock, Alain Brisson, Marike L. D. Broekman, Jacqueline Bromberg, Paulina Bryl‐Górecka, Shilpa Buch, Amy H. Buck, Dylan Burger, Sara Busatto, Dominik Buschmann, Benedetta Bussolati, Edit I. Buzás, James Brian Byrd, Giovanni Camussi, David R. F. Carter, Sarah Caruso, Lawrence W. Chamley, Yu‐Ting Chang, Chihchen Chen, Daiwen Chen, Lesley Cheng, Andrew R. Chin, Aled Clayton, Stefano Piatto Clerici, Alex Cocks, Emanuele Cocucci, Robert J. Coffey, Anabela Cordeiro‐da‐Silva, Yvonne Couch, Frank A. W. Coumans, Beth Coyle, Rossella Crescitelli, Miriã Ferreira Criado, Crislyn D’Souza‐Schorey, Saumya Das, Amrita Datta Chaudhuri, Paola de Candia, Eliezer F De Santana, Olivier De Wever, Hernando A. del Portillo, Tanguy Demaret, Sarah Deville, Andrew Devitt, Bert Dhondt, Dolores Di Vizio, Lothar C. Dieterich, Vincenza Dolo, Ana Paula Domínguez Rubio, Massimo Dominici, Maurício Rocha Dourado, Tom A. P. Driedonks, Filipe V. Duarte, Heather M. Duncan, Ramon M. Eichenberger, Karin M. Ekström, Samir EL Andaloussi, Céline Élie-Caille, Uta Erdbrügger, Juan Manuel Falcón‐Pérez, Farah Fatima, Jason E. Fish, Miguel Flores‐Bellver, András Försönits, Annie Frelet‐Barrand

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

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

María Yáñez‐Mó, Pia Siljander, Zoraida Andreu, Apolonija Bedina Zavec, Francesc E. Borràs, Edit I. Buzás, Krisztina Buzás, Enriqueta Casal, Francesco Cappello, Joana Carvalho, Eva Colás, Anabela Cordeiro‐da‐Silva, Stefano Fais, Juan Manuel Falcón‐Pérez, Irene M. Ghobrial, Bernd Giebel, Mario Gimona, Michael W. Graner, İhsan Gürsel, Mayda Gürsel, Niels H. H. Heegaard, An Hendrix, Peter Kierulf, Katsutoshi Kokubun, Maja Kosanović, Veronika Kralj‐Iglič, Eva‐Maria Krämer‐Albers, Saara Laitinen, Cecilia Lässer, Thomas Lener, Erzsébet Ligeti, Aija Linē, Georg Lipps, Alicia Llorente, Jan Lötvall, Mateja Manček‐Keber, Antonio Marcilla, Marı́a Mittelbrunn, Irina Nazarenko, Esther N. M. Nolte‐‘t Hoen, Tuula A. Nyman, Lorraine O’Driscoll, Mireia Oliván, Carla Oliveíra, Éva Pállinger, Hernando A. del Portillo, Jaume Reventós, Marina Rigau, Eva Rohde, Marei Sammar, Francisco Sánchez‐Madrid, Nuno Santarém, Katharina Schallmoser, Marie S. Ostenfeld, Willem Stoorvogel, Roman Štukelj, Susanne G. van der Grein, M. Helena Vasconcelos, Marca H. M. Wauben, Olivier De Wever