Volume 14 • Issue 2 • Summer 2019
www.ECRjournal.com Official journal of
Editor-in-Chief Juan Carlos Kaski St George’s University of London, London
Associate Editor Pablo Avanzas
University Hospital of Oviedo, Oviedo
International Advisers Richard Conti
University of Florida, Gainesville
Wolfgang Koenig
Giuseppe Mancia
Mario Marzilli
Hiroaki Shimokawa
Genetics and Cardiovascular Disease Eliecer Coto
Cardiovascular Disease in Women Angela Maas
Hypertension Maria Lorenza Muiesan
Epidemiology: Meta-analyses Gianluigi Savarese
Technical University of Munich, Munich
University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan
University of Pisa, Pisa
Tohoku University, Sendai
Section Editors Cardiac Imaging John Baksi Royal Brompton Hospital, London
Arrhythmias David Calvo
Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias
Genética Molecular-Laboratorio Medicina, HUCA, Oviedo
Structural Heart Disease: Cardiac Intervention Giuseppe Ferrante
Humanitas Research Hospital, Humanitas University, Milan
Radboud University, Nijmegen
Cardiomyopathies and Athletes Heart Disease Aneil Malhotra St George’s University of London, Londonw
University of Brescia, Brescia
Ischaemic Heart Disease Giampaolo Niccoli
Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome
Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm
Pharmacotherapy Juan Tamargo
Universidad Complutense, CIBERCV, Madrid
Editorial Board Debasish Banerjee
Carlo Di Mario
Thomas Kahan
Antoni Martínez-Rubio
Giuseppe Rosano
St George’s University of London, London
Careggi University Hospital, Florence
Danderyd University Hospital, Danderyd
University Hospital of Sabadell, Sabadell
IRCCS San Raffaele, Rome
Vinayak Bapat
Perry Elliott
Koichi Kaikita
John McNeill
Magdi Saba
Columbia University Medical Centre, New York
University College, London
Monash University, Melbourne
St George’s University of London, London
Velislav Batchvarov St George’s University of London, London
Antoni Bayés-Genís Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Barcelona
John Beltrame 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
King’s College London, London
Michael Fisher
Mike G Kirby University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield
Keld Per Kjeldsen
Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool
Copenhagen University Hospital (Holbaek Hospital), Holbæk
Augusto Gallino
Rao Kondapally
Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale, Bellinzona
Robert Gerber Conquest Hospital, Hastings
Bernard Gersh Mayo Clinic, Minnesota
David Goldsmith St George’s University of London, London
Tommaso Gori Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Mainz
Diana Gorog
St George’s University of London, London
Patrizio Lancellotti
Noel Bairey Merz Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles
Roxy Senior
Argyrios Ntalias
Imperial College, London
University of Athens, Athens
Nesan Shanmugam
Peter Ong
St George’s University of London, London
Robert-Bosch-Krankenhaus, Stuttgart
Sanjay Sharma
Denis Pellerin St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London
University of Liège, Liège
Carl Pepine
Gaetano Lanza
University of Florida, Florida
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome
Piotr Ponikowski
Amir Lerman
Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw
Mayo Clinic, Minnesota
Eva Prescott
Basil S Lewis
Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen
Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, Haifa
Axel Pries
José Luis López-Sendón La Paz Hospital, Madrid
Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin
Valentina Puntmann
Imperial College, London
University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Hertfordshire
Alberto Lorenzatti Hospital Córdoba, Córdoba
Goethe University Hospital Frankfurt, Frankfurt
Marcelo Di Carli
Kim Greaves
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Sunshine Coast University Hospital, Queensland
Silvia Maffei
Hari Raju
Derek Connolly
Eileen Handberg
Sandwell & West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust, Birmingham
University of Florida, Florida
Olivia Manfrini University of Bologna, Bologna
Polychronis Dilaveris
Koji Hasegawa National Hospital Organization Kyoto Medical Center, Fushimi-ku, Kyoto
Hippokration General Hospital, Athens
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Albert Ferro
Kumamoto University, Kumamoto
National Research Council, Pisa
Aneil Malhotra St George’s University of London, London
Felipe Martinez National University of Cordoba, Cordoba
Macquarie University, Sydney
Robin Ray St George’s University of London, London
Alejandro Recio UICE-HP Cardiología, HU Virgen Macarena, Sevilla
St George’s University of London, London
Rosa Sicari Italian National Research Council, Rome
Iana Simova National Cardiology Hospital, Sofia
Konstantinos Toutouzas University of Athens, Athens
Isabella Tritto University of Perugia, Perugia
Dimitrios Tziakas Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi
Mauricio Wajngarten University of São Paulo
Hiroshi Watanabe Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu
Matthew Wright St Thomas’ Hospital, London
José Luis Zamorano Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid
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