Giuseppe Mancia Robert Fagard Krzysztof Narkiewicz Josep Redón Alberto Zanchetti and 85 more 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 Michel Burnier Ettore Ambrosioni Mark Caufield António Coca Michael Hecht Olsen Costas Tsioufis Philippe van de Borne Jose Luis Zamorano Stephan Achenbach Helmut Baumgartner Jeroen J. Bax Héctor Bueno Veronica Dean Christi Deaton Çetin Erol Roberto Ferrari David Hasdai Arno W Hoes Juhani Knuuti Philippe Kolh Patrizio Lancellotti Aleš Linhart Petros Nihoyannopoulos Massimo Piepoli Piotr Ponikowski Juan Tamargo Michał Tendera Adam Torbicki William Wijns Stephan Windecker Denis Clément Thierry Gillebert Enrico Agabiti Rosei 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 Jens Jordan Thomas Kahan Michel Komajda Dragan Lović Heiko Mahrholdt Jan Ostergren Gianfranco Parati Joep Perk Jorge Polónia Bogdan A Popescu Zeljko Reiner Lars Rydén Yu.M. Sіrenko Alice Stanton Harry Struijker-Boudier Charalambos Vlachopoulos Massimo Volpe David Wood

Joep Perk Guy De Backer H. Gohlke Ian Graham Željko Reiner and 79 more 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 A. Wood José Luis Zamorano F Zannad 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 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 Christian Wolpert

John J.V. McMurray Stamatis Adamopoulos Stefan D. Anker Angelo Auricchio Michael Böhm and 64 more 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 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

Juhani Knuuti William Wijns Antti Saraste Davide Capodanno Emanuele Barbato and 95 more Christian Funck‐Brentano Eva Prescott Robert F. Storey Christi Deaton Thomas Cuisset Stefan Agewall Kenneth Dickstein Thor Edvardsen Javier Escaned Bernard J. Gersh Pavel Svítil Martine Gilard David Hasdai Róbert Hatala Felix Mahfoud Josep Masip Claudio Muneretto Marco Valgimigli Stephan Achenbach Jeroen J. Bax Franz-Josef Neumann Udo Sechtem Adrian Banning Nikolaos Bonaros Héctor Bueno Raffaele Bugiardini Alaide Chieffo Filippo Crea Martin Czerny Victoria Delgado Paul Dendale Frank A. Flachskampf H. Gohlke Erik Lerkevang Grove Stefan James Demosthenes G. Katritsis Ulf Landmesser Maddalena Lettino Christian M. Matter Hendrik M. Nathoe Alexander Niessner Carlo Patrono Anna Sonia Petronio S. Pettersen Raffaele Piccolo Massimo Piepoli Bogdan A Popescu Lorenz Räber Dimitrios Richter Marco Roffi Franz Xaver Roithinger Е. V. Shlyakhto Dirk Sibbing Sigmund Silber Iain Simpson Miguel Sousa‐Uva Panos Vardas Adam Witkowski Jose Luis Zamorano Stephan Achenbach Stefan Agewall Emanuele Barbato Jeroen J. Bax Davide Capodanno Thomas Cuisset Christi Deaton Kenneth Dickstein Thor Edvardsen Javier Escaned Christian Funck‐Brentano Bernard J. Gersh Martine Gilard David Hasdai Róbert Hatala Felix Mahfoud Josep Masip Claudio Muneretto Eva Prescott Antti Saraste Robert F. Storey Pavel Svítil Marco Valgimigli Stephan Windecker Victor Aboyans Colin Baigent Jean-Philippe Collet Veronica Dean Victoria Delgado Donna Fitzsimons Chris P Gale Diederick E. Grobbee Sigrun Halvorsen Gerhard Hindricks Bernard Iung Peter Jüni

Massimo Piepoli Arno W. Hoes Stefan Agewall Christian Albus Carlos Brotons and 21 more Alberico L. Catapano Marie Therese Cooney Ugo Corrà Bernard Cosyns Christi Deaton Ian Graham Michael Hall Richard Hobbs Maja‐Lisa Løchen Herbert Löllgen Pedro Marques‐Vidal Joep Perk Eva Prescott Josep Redón Dimitrios Richter Naveed Sattar Yvo M. Smulders Monica Tiberi H. Bart van der Worp Ineke van Dis W. M. Monique Verschuren

Gilles Montalescot Udo Sechtem Stephan Achenbach Felicita Andreotti Chris Arden and 76 more Andrzej Budaj Raffaele Bugiardini Filippo Crea Thomas Cuisset Carlo Di Mario J Rafael Ferreira Bernard J. Gersh Anselm K Gitt Jean‐Sébastien Hulot Nikolaus Marx Lionel H. Opie Matthias Pfisterer Eva Prescott Frank Ruschitzka Manel Sabaté Roxy Senior David P. Taggart ERNST E. VAN DER WALL Christiaan Vrints Jose Luis Zamorano Stephan Achenbach Helmut Baumgartner J. J. Bax Héctor Bueno Veronica Dean Christi Deaton Cetin Erol R. Fagard Roberto Ferrari David Hasdai Arno W Hoes Paulus Kirchhof Juhani Knuuti Philippe Kolh Patrizio Lancellotti Aleš Linhart Petros Nihoyannopoulos Massimo F Piepoli Piotr Ponikowski Per Anton Sirnes Juan Tamargo Michał Tendera Adam Torbicki William Wijns Stephan Windecker Juhani Knuuti Marco Valgimigli Héctor Bueno Marc J Claeys Norbert Donner­-Banzhoff Cetin Erol Herbert Frank Christian Funck‐Brentano Oliver Gaemperli José Ramón González‐Juanatey Michalis Hamilos David Hasdai Steen Husted Stefan K James Kari Kervinen Philippe Kolh Steen Dalby Kristensen Patrizio Lancellotti Aldo P. Maggioni Massimo F Piepoli Axel R. Pries Francesco Romeo Lars Rydén Maarten L Simoons Per Anton Sirnes Philippe Gabríel Steg Adam Timmis William Wijns Stephan Windecker Aylin Yı́ldı́rı́r Jose Luis Zamorano

Philippe Kolh Stephan Windecker Fernándo Alfonso Jean‐Philippe Collet Jochen Cremer and 79 more Volkmar Falk Gerasimos Filippatos Christian W. Hamm Stuart J. Head Peter Jüni A. Pieter Kappetein Adnan Kastrati Juhani Knuuti Ulf Landmesser Günther Laufer Franz‐Josef Neumann Dimitrios Richter Patrick Schauerte Miguel Sousa‐Uva Giulio Stefanini David P. Taggart Lucia Torracca Marco Valgimigli William Wijns Adam Witkowski José Luis Zamorano Stephan Achenbach Helmut Baumgartner Jeroen J. Bax Héctor Bueno Verónica 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 Miguel Sousa‐Uva Stephan Achenbach John Pepper Anelechi Anyanwu Lina Badimón Johann Bauersachs Andreas Baumbach Farzin Beygui Nikolaos Bonaros Marco De Carlo Christi Deaton Dobromir Dobrev Joel Dunning Eric Eeckhout Stephan Gielen David Hasdai Paulus Kirchhof Heyman Luckraz Heiko Mahrholdt Gilles Montalescot Domenico Paparella Ardawan Rastan Marcelo Sanmartı́n Paul Sergeant Sigmund Silber Juan Tamargo Jurriën M. ten Berg Hölger Thiele Robert‐Jan van Geuns Hans-Otto Wagner Sven Waßmann Olaf Wendler José Luis Zamorano

Authors Task Force Members Raimund Erbel Victor Aboyans Cathérine Boileau Eduardo Bossone and 89 more Roberto Di Bartolomeo Holger Eggebrecht Arturo Evangelista Volkmar Falk Herbert Frank Oliver Gaemperli Martin Grabenwöger Axel Haverich Bernard Iung Athanasios Manolis Folkert J. Meijboom Christoph Nienaber Marco Roffi Hervé Rousseau Udo Sechtem Per Anton Sirnes Regula S. von Allmen Christiaan Vrints ESC Committee for Practice Guidelines José Luis Zamorano Stephan Achenbach Helmut Baumgartner Jeroen J. Bax Héctor Bueno Verónica 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 Document Reviewers Petros Nihoyannopoulos Michał Tendera Martin Czerny John Deanfield Carlo Di Mario Mauro Pepi Maria Taboada M.R. van Sambeek Charalambos Vlachopoulos José Luis Zamorano Michael Grimm Oktay Musayev Agnès Pasquet Zumreta Kušljugić Maja Čikeš Georgios P Georghiou Josef Stasek Henning Mølgaard Sirje Kõvask Ville Kytö Guillaume Jondeau Zviad Bakhutashvili Yskert Von Kodolitsch Costas Tsioufis A Temesvári Ronen Rubinshtein Francesco Antonini‐Canterin Olga Lunegova Pēteris Stradiņš Elie Chammas Regina Jonkaitienė Andrew Cassar Knut Bjørnstad Kazimierz Widenka Miguel Sousa‐Uva Daniel Lighezan Jovan Peruničić Juraj Maďarič Isidre Vilacosta Magnus Bäck Abdallah Mahdhaoui Recep Demirbağ I. M. Kravchenko

A. John Camm Gregory Y.H. Lip Raffaele De Caterina Irene Savelieva Dan Atar and 50 more Stefan H. Hohnloser Gerhard Hindricks Paulus Kirchhof Jeroen J. Bax Helmut Baumgartner Claudio Ceconi Verónica Dean Christi Deaton R. 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 Per Anton Sirnes Michał Tendera Adam Torbicki Alec Vahanian Stephan Windecker Panos Vardas Nawwar Al‐Attar Ottavio Alfieri Annalisa Angelini Carina Blomström‐Lundqvist Paolo Colonna Johan De Sutter Sabine Ernst Andreas Goette Bülent Görenek Róbert Hatala Hein Heidbüchel Magnus Heldal Steen Dalby Kristensen Philippe Kolh Jean-Yves Le Heuzey Hercules E. Mavrakis Lluı́s Mont Pasquale Perrone Filardi Piotr Ponikowski Bernard Prendergast Frans H. Rutten Ulrich Schotten Isabelle C. Van Gelder Freek W.A. Verheugt

Alec Vahanian Ottavio Alfieri Felicita Andreotti Manuel J. Antunes Gonzalo Barón‐Esquivias and 65 more Helmut Baumgartner Michael A. Borger Thierry Carrel Michele De Bonis Arturo Evangelista Volkmar Falk Bernard Iung Patrizio Lancellotti Luc Piérard Susanna Price Hans‐Joachim Schäfers Gerhard Schüler J Stepińska Karl Swedberg Johanna J.M. Takkenberg Ulrich Otto Von Oppell Stephan Windecker José Luis Zamorano Marian Zembala Jeroen J. Bax Helmut Baumgartner Claudio Ceconi Verónica 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 Per Anton Sirnes Michał Tendera Adam Torbicki Alec Vahanian Stephan Windecker Bogdan A. Popescu Ludwig von Segesser Luigi P. Badano Matjaž Bunc Marc J. Claeys Nikša Drinković Gerasimos Filippatos Gilbert Habib A. Pieter Kappetein Roland Kassab Gregory Y.H. Lip Neil Moat Georg Nickenig Catherine M Otto John Pepper Nicolò Piazza Petronella G. Pieper Raphaël Rosenhek Naltin Shuka Ehud Schwammenthal Juerg Schwitter Pilar Tornos Mas Pedro T. Trindade Thomas Walther

Željko Reiner Alberico L. Catapano Guy De Backer Ian Graham Marja‐Riitta Taskinen and 71 more Olov Wiklund Stefan Agewall E Alegría M. John Chapman Paul N. Durrington Serap Erdine Julian Halcox Richard Hobbs John Kjekshus Pasquale Perrone Filardi Gabriele Riccardi Robert F. Storey David M. Wood Jeroen J. Bax A. Vahanian A Auricchio Helmut Baumgartner Claudio Ceconi V. Dean Christi Deaton Robert Fagard Gerasimos Filippatos Christian Funck‐Brentano David Hasdai Richard Hobbs Arno W. Hoes Patricia M. Kearney Juhani Knuuti Philippe Kolh T. McDonagh Bruno Moulin D Poldermans Bogdan A. Popescu Željko Reiner Udo Sechtem P. A. Sirnes Michał Tendera Adam Torbicki P. Vardas P. Widimsky Stephan Windecker Document Reviewers Christian Funck‐Brentano D Poldermans G. Berkenboom Jacqueline de Graaf Olivier Descamps Nina Gotcheva K. Griffith Giuseppe Guida Sadi Güleç Y Henkin Kurt Huber Y. Antero Kesäniemi J. Lekakis Athanasios Manolis Pedro Marques‐Vidal L. Masana John J.V. McMurray Eugénia Mendes Zurab Pagava Terje Pedersen Eva Prescott Quitéria Rato Giuseppe Rosano Susana Sans A. Stalenhoef Lâle Tokgözoğlu Margus Viigimaa M. E. Wittekoek José Luis Zamorano

Kristian Thygesen Joseph S. Alpert Allan S. Jaffe Maarten L. Simoons Bernard R. Chaitman and 95 more Harvey D. White Kristian Thygesen Joseph S. Alpert Harvey D. White Allan S. Jaffe Hugo A. Katus Fred S. Apple Bertil Lindahl David A. Morrow Bernard R. Chaitman Peter Clemmensen Per Johanson Hanoch Hod Richard Underwood Jeroen J. Bax Robert O. Bonow Fausto J. Pinto Raymond J. Gibbons Keith A.A. Fox Dan Atar L. Kristin Newby Marcello Galvani Christian W. Hamm Barry F. Uretsky Philippe Gabríel Steg William Wijns Jean‐Pierre Bassand P Menasché Jan Ravkilde E. Magnus Ohman Elliott M. Antman Lars Wallentin Paul W. Armstrong Maarten L. Simoons James L. Januzzi Markku S. Nieminen Mihai Gheorghiade Gerasimos Filippatos Russell V. Luepker Stephen P. Fortmann Wayne D. Rosamond Daniel Levy David A. Wood Sidney C. Smith Dayi Hu J L López-Sendón Rose Marie Robertson Donald W. Weaver Michał Tendera Alfred A. Bové Alexander Parkhomenko Elena Vasilieva Shanthi Mendis Jeroen J. Bax Helmut Baumgartner Claudio Ceconi Verónica 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 Per Anton Sirnes Michał Tendera Adam Torbicki Alec Vahanian Stephan Windecker João Morais Carlos Aguíar Wael Almahmeed Davíð O. Arnar Fabio Barili Kenneth D. Bloch Ann F. Bolger Hans Erik Bøtker Biykem Bozkurt Raffaele Bugiardini Christopher P. Cannon James A. de Lemos Franz R. Eberli Edgardo Escobar Mark A. Hlatky Stefan James Karl B. Kern David J. Moliterno Christian Mueller Aleksandar Nešković

Stavros Konstantinides Adam Torbicki Giancarlo Agnelli Nicolas Danchin David Fitzmaurice and 68 more Nazzareno Galiè J. Simon R. Gibbs Menno V. Huisman Marc Humbert Nils Kucher Iréne Lang Mareike Lankeit John Lekakis Christoph Maack Eckhard Mayer Nicolas Méneveau Arnaud Perrier Piotr Pruszczyk Lars Rasmussen Thomas H. Schindler Pavel Svítil Anton Vonk Noordegraaf Jose Luis Zamorano Maurizio Zompatori 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 Çetin Erol David Jiménez Walter Ageno Stefan Agewall Riccardo Asteggiano Rupert Bauersachs Cecilia Becattini Henri Bounameaux Harry R. Büller Constantinos H. Davos Christi Deaton Geert-Jan Geersing Miguel Ángel Gómez Sánchez Jeroen Hendriks Arno W. Hoes Mustafa Kılıçkap Mareev VIu Manuel Monréal João Morais Petros Nihoyannopoulos Bogdan A. Popescu Olivier Sanchez Alex C. Spyropoulos

A. John Camm Gregory Y.H. Lip Raffaele De Caterina Irene Savelieva Dan Atar and 50 more Stefan H. Hohnloser Gerhard Hindricks Paulus Kirchhof Jeroen J. Bax Helmut Baumgartner Claudio Ceconi Verónica 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 Per Anton Sirnes Michał Tendera Adam Torbicki Alec Vahanian Stephan Windecker Panos Vardas Nawwar Al‐Attar Ottavio Alfieri Annalisa Angelini Carina Blomström‐Lundqvist Paolo Colonna Johan De Sutter Sabine Ernst Andreas Goette Bülent Görenek Róbert Hatala Hein Heidbüchel Magnus Heldal Steen Dalby Kristensen Philippe Kolh Jean‐Yves Le Heuzey Hercules E. Mavrakis Lluı́s Mont Pasquale Perrone Filardi Piotr Ponikowski Bernard Prendergast Frans H. Rutten Ulrich Schotten Isabelle C. Van Gelder Freek W.A. Verheugt

Authors Task Force Members Michele Brignole Angelo Auricchio Gonzalo Barón‐Esquivias Pierre Bordachar and 68 more Giuseppe Boriani Ole A. Breithardt John G.F. Cleland Jean‐Claude Deharo Victoria Delgado Perry Elliott Bülent Görenek Carsten W. Israel Christophe Leclercq Cecilia Linde Lluı́s Mont Luigi Padeletti Richard Sutton Panos Vardas ESC Committee for Practice Guidelines José Luis Zamorano Stephan Achenbach Helmut Baumgartner Jeroen J. Bax Héctor Bueno Verónica 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 Document Reviewers Paulus Kirchhof Carina Blomström‐Lundqvist Luigi P. Badano Farid Aliyev Dietmar Bänsch Helmut Baumgartner Walid Bsata Peter Buser Philippe Charron Jean‐Claude Daubert Dan Dobreanu Svein Færestrand David Hasdai Arno W. Hoes Jean‐Yves Le Heuzey Hercules E. Mavrakis Theresa A. McDonagh José Luís Merino M. M. Nawar Jens Cosedis Nielsen Burkert Pieske Lidija Poposka Frank Ruschitzka Michał Tendera Isabelle C. Van Gelder Carol M. Wilson

John J.V. McMurray Stamatis Adamopoulos Stefan D. Anker Angelo Auricchio Michael Böhm and 64 more Kenneth Dickstein Volkmar Falk Gerasimos Filippatos Cândida Fonseca Miguel Ángel Gómez‐Sánchez Tiny Jaarsma Lars Køber Gregory 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 Helmut Baumgartner Claudio Ceconi Verónica 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 Per Anton Sirnes Michał Tendera Adam Torbicki Alec Vahanian Stephan Windecker 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 G. Guida Suzanna Hardman Bernard Iung Béla Merkely Christian Mueller John N. Nanas Olav Wendelboe Nielsen Stein Ørn John Parissis Piotr Ponikowski

Kristian Thygesen Joseph S. Alpert Allan S. Jaffe Maarten L. Simoons Bernard R. Chaitman and 95 more Harvey D. White Kristian Thygesen Joseph S. Alpert Harvey D. White Allan S. Jaffe Hugo A. Katus Fred S. Apple Bertil Lindahl David A. Morrow Bernard R. Chaitman Peter Clemmensen Per Johanson Hanoch Hod Richard Underwood Jeroen J. Bax Jeroen J Bonow Fausto J. Pinto Raymond J. Gibbons Keith A.A. Fox Dan Atar L. Kristin Newby Marcello Galvani Christian W. Hamm Barry F. Uretsky Philippe Gabríel Steg William Wijns Jean‐Pierre Bassand P Menasché Jan Ravkilde E. Magnus Ohman Elliott M. Antman Lars Wallentin Paul W. Armstrong Maarten L. Simoons James L. Januzzi Markku S. Nieminen Mihai Gheorghiade Gerasimos Filippatos Russell V. Luepker Stephen P. Fortmann Wayne D. Rosamond Daniel Levy David A. Wood Sidney C. Smith Dayi Hu J L López-Sendón Rose Marie Robertson Donald W. Weaver Michał Tendera Alfred A. Bové Alexander Parkhomenko Elena Vasilieva Shanthi Mendis Jeroen J. Bax Helmut Baumgartner Claudio Ceconi Verónica 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 Per Anton Sirnes Michał Tendera Adam Torbicki Alec Vahanian Stephan Windecker João Morais Carlos Aguíar Wael Almahmeed Davíð O. Arnar Fabio Barili Kenneth D. Bloch Ann F. Bolger Hans Erik Bøtker Biykem Bozkurt Raffaele Bugiardini Christopher P. Cannon James A. de Lemos Franz R. Eberli Edgardo Escobar Mark A. Hlatky Stefan James Karl B. Kern David J. Moliterno Christian Mueller Aleksandar Nešković

Alec Vahanian Ottavio Alfieri Felicita Andreotti Manuel J. Antunes Gonzalo Barón‐Esquivias and 65 more Helmut Baumgartner Michael A. Borger Thierry Carrel Michele De Bonis Arturo Evangelista Volkmar Falk Bernard Iung Patrizio Lancellotti Luc Piérard Susanna Price Hans‐Joachim Schäfers Gerhard Schüler Janina Stępińska Karl Swedberg Johanna J.M. Takkenberg Ulrich Otto Von Oppell Stephan Windecker José Luis Zamorano Marian Zembala Jeroen J. Bax Helmut Baumgartner Claudio Ceconi Verónica 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 Per Anton Sirnes Michał Tendera Adam Torbicki Alec Vahanian Stephan Windecker Bogdan A. Popescu Ludwig von Segesser Luigi P. Badano Matjaž Bunc Marc J. Claeys Nikša Drinković Gerasimos Filippatos Gilbert Habib A. Pieter Kappetein Roland Kassab Gregory Y.H. Lip Neil Moat Georg Nickenig Catherine M Otto John Pepper Nicolò Piazza P.G. Pieper Raphaël Rosenhek Naltin Shuka Ehud Schwammenthal Juerg Schwitter Pilar Tornos Mas Pedro T. Trindade Thomas Walther

Authors Task Force Members Lars Rydén Peter J. Grant Stefan D. Anker Christian Berne and 80 more Francesco Cosentino Nicolas Danchin Christi Deaton Javier Escaned Hans‐Peter Hammes Heikki Huikuri Michel Marre Nikolaus Marx Linda Mellbin Jan Östergren Carlo Patrono Petar Seferovic Miguel Sousa‐Uva Marja‐Riitta Taskinen Michał Tendera Jaakko Tuomilehto Paul Valensi José Luis Zamorano ESC Committee for Practice Guidelines José Luis Zamorano Stephan Achenbach Helmut Baumgartner Jeroen J. Bax Héctor Bueno Verónica 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 Document Reviewers Guy De Backer Per Anton Sirnes Eduardo Alegría Ezquerra Angelo Avogaro Lina Badimón Е. И. Баранова Helmut Baumgartner John Betteridge Antonio Ceriello Robert Fagard Christian Funck‐Brentano Dietrich C. Gulba David Hasdai Arno W. Hoes John Kjekshus Juhani Knuuti Philippe Kolh Eli Lev Christian Mueller Ludwig Neyses Peter M. Nilsson Joep Perk Piotr Ponikowski Željko Reiner Naveed Sattar Volker Schächinger André Scheen Henrik Schirmer Anna Strömberg Svetlana Sudzhaeva Juan Tamargo Margus Viigimaa Charalambos Vlachopoulos Robert G. Xuereb

Vera Regitz‐Zagrosek Jolien W. Roos‐Hesselink Johann Bauersachs Carina Blomström‐Lundqvist Renata Cífková and 95 more Michele De Bonis Bernard Iung Mark R. Johnson Ulrich Kintscher Peter Kranke Iréne Lang João Morais Petronella G. Pieper Patrizia Presbitero Susanna Price Giuseppe Rosano Ute Seeland Tommaso Simoncini Lorna Swan Carole A. Warnes Christi Deaton Iain A. Simpson Victor Aboyans Stefan Agewall Emanuele Barbato Pavel Calda António Coca Ioan Mircea Coman Julie De Backer Victoria Delgado Giovanni Di Salvo Samantha Fitzsimmons Donna Fitzsimons Madalina Garbi Sofie Gevaert Gerhard Hindricks Guillaume Jondeau Jolanda Kluin Christos Lionis Theresa A. McDonagh Pascal Meier Philip Moons Antonios Pantazis Massimo Piepoli Bianca Rocca Marco Roffi Stephan Rosenkranz Andrea Sarkozy Е. V. Shlyakhto Candice Silversides Karen Sliwa Miguel Sousa‐Uva Juan Tamargo Sara Thorne Marc Van De Velde Bryan Williams José Luis Zamorano Stephan Windecker Victor Aboyans Stefan Agewall Emanuele Barbato Héctor Bueno António Coca Jean‐Philippe Collet Ioan Mircea Coman Verónica Dean Victoria Delgado Donna Fitzsimons Oliver Gaemperli Gerhard Hindricks Bernard Iung Peter Jüni Hugo A. Katus Juhani Knuuti Patrizio Lancellotti Christophe Leclercq Theresa A. McDonagh Massimo Piepoli Piotr Ponikowski Dimitrios J. Richter Marco Roffi Е. V. Shlyakhto Iain A. Simpson Miguel Sousa‐Uva José Luis Zamorano Naima Hammoudi Armen Piruzyan Julia Mascherbauer Fuad Samadov Andrei Prystrom Agnès Pasquet Jasmin Čaluk Nina Gotcheva Boško Skorić Hera Heracleous Niels Vejlstrup Maarja Maser Risto Juhani Kaaja Elizabeta Srbinovska‐Kostovska Claire Mounier‐Véhier

Vera Regitz‐Zagrosek Carina Blomström Lundqvist Claudio Borghi Renata Cífková Daniel Ferreira and 69 more Jean‐Michel Foidart J. S. R. Gibbs Christa Gohlke-Baerwolf Bülent Görenek Bernard Iung Michael Kirby Angela H.E.M. Maas João Morais P. Nihoyannopoulos Petronella G. Pieper Patrizia Presbitero J. W. Roos-Hesselink Maria Schaufelberger Ute Seeland Lucia Torracca Jeroen J. Bax Angelo Auricchio Helmut Baumgartner Claudio Ceconi V. Dean Christi Deaton Robert Fagard Christian Funck‐Brentano David Hasdai Arno W. Hoes Juhani Knuuti Philippe Kolh Theresa A. McDonagh Bruno Moulin D. Poldermans Bogdan A. Popescu Željko Reiner Udo Sechtem Per Anton Sirnes Adam Torbicki Alec Vahanian Stephan Windecker Helmut Baumgartner Christi Deaton Carlos Aguíar Nawwar Al‐Attar Ángeles García Anna Antoniou Ioan Mircea Coman Uri Elkayam M. A. Gomez-Sanchez Nina Gotcheva Denise Hilfiker‐Kleiner Róbert Gábor Kiss Anastasia Kitsiou Karen Konings Gregory Y.H. Lip Athanasios Manolis A. Mebaaza Iveta Mintāle Marie-Claude Morice B. J. M. Mulder Agnès Pasquet Susanna Price S. G. Priori M. J. Salvador A. Shotan Candice Silversides Sven O. Skouby J.-I. Stein P. Tornos Niels Vejlstrup Fiona Walker Carole A. Warnes

Authors Task Force Members Steen Dalby Kristensen Juhani Knuuti Antti Saraste Stefan D. Anker and 95 more Hans Erik Bøtker Stefan De Hert Ian Ford José Ramón González‐Juanatey Bülent Görenek Guy R. Heyndrickx Andreas Hoeft Kurt Huber Bernard Iung Keld Per Kjeldsen Dan Longrois Thomas F. Lüscher Luc Piérard Stuart J. Pocock Susanna Price Marco Roffi Per Anton Sirnes Miguel Sousa‐Uva Vasilis Voudris Christian Funck‐Brentano ESC Committee for Practice Guidelines José Luis Zamorano Stephan Achenbach Helmut Baumgartner Jeroen J. Bax Héctor Bueno Verónica 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 ESA Clinical Guidelines Committee M Solca Jean-François Brichant Stefan De Hert Edoardo De Robertis Dan Longrois Sibylle Kozek Langenecker Josef Wichelewski Document Reviewers Massimo Piepoli William Wijns Stefan Agewall Claudio Ceconi António Coca Ugo Corrà Raffaele De Caterina Carlo Di Mario Thor Edvardsen Robert Fagard Giuseppe Germanò Fabio Guarracino Arno W. Hoes Torben Joergensen Peter Jüni Pedro Marques‐Vidal Christian Mueller Öztekin Oto Philippe Pîbarot Piotr Ponikowski Olav F Münter Sellevold Filippos Triposkiadis Stephan Windecker Patrick Wouters Bernhard Metzler Rahima Gabulova Alena Kurlianskaya Marc J. Claeys Ibrahim Terzić Assen Goudev Petros Agathangelou Hana Skalická Lone Due Vestergaard Margus Viigimaa Kai Lindgren Gérald Vanzetto Zurab Pagava Malte Kelm Costas Thomopoulos

Michał Tendera Victor Aboyans M L Bartelink I. Baumgartner D Clement and 74 more J.-P. Collet A. Cremonesi Marco De Carlo Marco De Carlo F.G.R. Fowkes M. Heras Serge Kownator E Minar Jan Östergren D. Poldermans Vicenç Riambau Marco Roffi Joachim Röther H. Sievert Marc van Sambeek Thomas Zeller Jeroen J. Bax A Auricchio H. Baumgartner Claudio Ceconi V. Dean Christi Deaton R. Fagard Christian Funck‐Brentano D. Hasdai Arno W. Hoes Juhani Knuuti P. Kolh T. McDonagh Bruno Moulin D. Poldermans Bogdan A. Popescu Željko Reiner Udo Sechtem Per Anton Sirnes Adam Torbicki A. Vahanian Stephan Windecker Philippe Kolh Adam Torbicki Stefan Agewall Aleš Blinc M Bulvas F. Cosentino T. De Backer A. Gottsater Dietrich C. Gulba Tomasz J. Guzik B. Jonsson Gábor Késmárky Anastasia Kitsiou W. Kuczmik Mogens Lytken Larsen J. Madaric Jean‐Louis Mas John J.V. McMurray A. Micari M. Mosseri C. Müller Ross Naylor Bo Norrving Öztekin Oto Tomasz Pasierski P.-F. Plouin F. Ribichini Jean‐Baptiste Ricco Luís M. Ruilope Jean‐Paul Schmid U. Schwehr B. G. M. Sol Muriel Sprynger Christiane Tiefenbacher C Tsioufis H. Van Damme

Massimo Piepoli Arno W. Hoes Stefan Agewall Christian Albus Carlos Brotons and 53 more Alberico L. Catapano Marie Therese Cooney Ugo Corrà Bernard Cosyns Christi Deaton Ian D. Graham Michael Hall Richard Hobbs Maja‐Lisa Løchen Herbert Löllgen Pedro Marques‐Vidal Joep Perk Eva Prescott Josep Redón Dimitrios Richter Naveed Sattar Yvo M. Smulders Monica Tiberi H. Bart van der Worp Ineke van Dis W. M. Monique Verschuren Guy De Backer Marco Roffi Victor Aboyans Norbert Bachl Héctor Bueno Scipione Carerj Leslie Cho John M. Cox Johan De Sutter Günther Egidi Miles Fisher Donna Fitzsimons Oscar H. Franco Maxime Guenoun Catriona Jennings Borut Jug Paulus Kirchhof Kornelia Kotseva Gregory Y.H. Lip François Mach Giuseppe Mancia Franz Martin Bermudo Alessandro Mezzani Alexander Niessner Piotr Ponikowski Bernhard Rauch Lars Rydén Adrienne Stauder Guillaume Turc Olov Wiklund Stephan Windecker José Luis Zamorano

Michele Brignole Angelo Auricchio Gonzalo Barón‐Esquivias P. Bordachar Giuseppe Boriani and 65 more Ole A. Breithardt John G.F. Cleland Jean‐Claude Deharo Victoria Delgado Perry Elliott Bülent Görenek C. W. Israel Christophe Leclercq Cecilia Linde Lluı́s Mont Luigi Padeletti Richard Sutton Panos Vardas José Luis Zamorano Stephan Achenbach Helmut Baumgartner Jeroen J. Bax Héctor Bueno V. Dean Christi Deaton Çetin Erol R. Fagard Roberto Ferrari David Hasdai Arno W. Hoes Paulus Kirchhof Juhani Knuuti Philippe Kolh Patrizio Lancellotti Aleš Linhart Petros Nihoyannopoulos Massimo Piepoli Piotr Ponikowski P. A. Sirnes Juan Tamargo Michał Tendera Adam Torbicki William Wijns Stephan Windecker Paulus Kirchhof Carina Blomström‐Lundqvist Luigi P. Badano Farid Aliyev Dietmar Bänsch Helmut Baumgartner Walid Bsata Peter Buser Philippe Charron Jean‐Claude Daubert Dan Dobreanu Svein Færestrand David Hasdai Arno W. Hoes J.-Y. Le Heuzey Hercules E. Mavrakis Theresa A. McDonagh José Luís Merino M. M. Nawar Jens Cosedis Nielsen Burkert Pieske Lidija Poposka Frank Ruschitzka Michał Tendera Isabelle C. Van Gelder Carol M. Wilson