Volume 14 • Issue 1 • Spring 2019
www.ECRjournal.com Official journal of
Editor-in-Chief Juan Carlos Kaski St George’s University of London, London
Senior Associate Editors Pablo Avanzas
Wolfgang Koenig
Mario Marzilli
Richard Conti
Giuseppe Mancia
Hiroaki Shimokawa
University Hospital of Oviedo, Oviedo
Technical University of Munich, Munich
University of Florida, Gainesville
University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan
University of Pisa, Pisa Tohoku University, Sendai
Editorial Board Debasish Banerjee
St George’s University of London, London
Vinayak Bapat
Columbia University Medical Centre, New York
Velislav Batchvarov
Alberto Lorenzatti
Hospital Córdoba, Córdoba
Giuseppe Rosano
Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale, Bellinzona
Robert Gerber
Angela Maas
Magdi Saba
Conquest Hospital, Hastings
Bernard Gersh
St George’s University of London, London
Mayo Clinic, Minnesota
Antoni Bayés-Genís
David Goldsmith
Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Barcelona
St George’s University of London, London
John Beltrame
Tommaso Gori
University of Adelaide, Adelaide
Christopher Cannon
Harvard Medical School, Boston
Peter Collins
Imperial College, London
Alberto Cuocolo
University of Naples Federico II, Naples
Gheorghe Andrei Dan
Colentina University Hospital, Bucharest
Ranil de Silva
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz
Kim Greaves
National University of Cordoba, Cordoba
Antoni Martínez-Rubio Noel Bairey Merz
University of Athens, Athens
Danderyd University Hospital, Danderyd
Denis Pellerin
Carlo Di Mario
Rao Kondapally
Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool
Felipe Martinez
Thomas Kahan
University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield
Michael Fisher
University of Bologna, Bologna
Argyrios Ntalias
Hippokration General Hospital, Athens
King’s College London, London
Olivia Manfrini
Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles
Mike G Kirby
Albert Ferro
Karolinska Institute, Stockholm
St George’s University of London, London
University of Florida, Florida
Polychronis Dilaveris
University College, London
Aneil Malhotra
Eileen Handberg
Imperial College, London
Perry Elliott
St George’s University of London, London
Sunshine Coast University Hospital, Queensland
Koichi Kaikita
St George’s University of London, London
Patrizio Lancellotti University of Liège, Liège
Amir Lerman Mayo Clinic, Minnesota
José Luis López-Sendón La Paz Hospital, Madrid
IRCCS San Raffaele, Rome
Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen
University Hospital of Sabadell, Sabadell
Kumamoto University, Kumamoto
Careggi University Hospital, Florence
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Augusto Gallino
St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London
Gianluigi Savarese Roxy Senior
Imperial College, London
Nesan Shanmugam
St George’s University of London, London
Sanjay Sharma
St George’s University of London, London
Rosa Sicari
Italian National Research Council, Rome
Iana Simova
National Cardiology Hospital, Sofia
Juan Tamargo
University Complutense, Madrid
Konstantinos Toutouzas University of Athens, Athens
Carl Pepine
Isabella Tritto
Piotr Ponikowski
Dimitrios Tziakas
Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw
Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi
Eva Prescott
Mauricio Wajngarten
Axel Pries
Hiroshi Watanabe
Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu
Hari Raju
Matthew Wright
University of Florida, Florida
Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen
Macquarie University, Sydney
Robin Ray
St George’s University of London, London
University of Perugia, Perugia
University of São Paulo
St Thomas’ Hospital, London
José Luis Zamorano
Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid
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