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ISSN NUMBER |
0002-9149 |
Format |
Journal |
Publisher |
ELSEVIER |
Volume Number |
Volumes 138-150 |
Frequency |
1 issue |
Editor-in-Chief ,William C. Roberts ,,BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER, Dallas, Texas, United States,Managing Editor ,Jill Rutherford ,,BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER, Dallas, Texas, United States,Senior Executive Editor ,Peter A. McCullough ,,HeartPlace Baylor Heart and Vascular Hospital, Dallas, Texas, United States, ,Paul Grayburn ,,Baylor Scott & White The Heart Hospital Plano, Plano, Texas, United States,Associate Editors ,A. Cedars ,,UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER, Dallas, Texas, United States, ,G. Filardo ,,Baylor Scott and White Health, Dallas, Texas, United States, ,S.A. Hall ,,Baylor Scott and White Health, Dallas, Texas, United States, ,J. M. Schussler ,,Baylor Scott & White Heart and Vascular Hospital, Dallas, Texas, United States, ,R.C. Stoler ,,HeartPlace Baylor Heart and Vascular Hospital, Dallas, Texas, United States,Editorial Board , ,,,Cardiovascular Medicine In Adults ,A. Abbate ,,Catholic University of the Sacred Heart Institute of Cardiology, Rome, Italy, ,J. D. Abbott ,,Brown University Warren Alpert Medical School, Providence, Rhode Island, United States, ,G.S. Abela ,,Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, United States, ,J. Aboulhosn ,,University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States, ,T. Ahmad ,,Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, ,J.S. Alpert ,,University of Arizona College of Medicine, ,M.A. Alpert ,,University of Missouri, ,E. Amsterdam ,,University of California Davis Health System, ,J.L. Anderson ,,Intermountain Medical Center, ,H.V. Anderson ,,University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, ,E. Arbustini ,,Foundation IRCCS Polyclinic San Matteo, ,P. Avanzas ,MD,University of Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain, ,G.J. Balady ,,BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, ,C. Basso ,,University of Padua, Padova, Italy, ,E. Bates ,,UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM, ,J. J. Bax ,,Leiden University Medical Center Department of Cardiology, Leiden, Netherlands, ,O. F. Bertrand ,,Quebec Heart and Lung Institute, Quebec, ,J.C. Blankenship ,,Geisinger Medical Center, Danville, Pennsylvania, United States, ,W. E. Boden ,,United States Department of Veterans Affairs, Samuel S. Stratton VA Medical Center and Albany Medical Center, ,M.M. Bodenheimer ,,Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, New York, United States, ,J. S. Borer ,,LONG ISLAND COLLEGE HOSPITAL, ,E. Braunwald ,,WOMANS HOSPITAL, ,J.A. Brinker ,,JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, ,D.L. Brown ,,Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, ,T.M. Brown ,,The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States, ,N. D. Brunetti ,,University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy, ,M.E. Cain ,,University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Buffalo, New York, United States, ,B.R. Chaitman ,,Saint Louis University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States, ,E.H. Chung ,,UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, ,R.J. Cody ,,Johnson and Johnson PGSM, Raritan, New Jersey, United States, ,L.S. Cohen ,,Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, ,M. Cohen ,,RMIT University School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, Bundoora, Australia, ,C.R Conti ,,University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, United States, ,M.H Crawford ,,University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States, ,F. D'Ascenzo ,,University Hospital City of Science and Health Turin, Torino, Italy, ,G.M. De Ferrari ,,Foundation IRCCS Polyclinic San Matteo, Pavia, Italy, ,A.N. DeMaria ,,University of California San Diego Department of Medicine, ,G. J. Dehmer ,,Texas A&M University College of Medicine, Bryan, Texas, United States, ,V. Delgado ,,Leiden University Medical Center Department of Cardiology, Leiden, Netherlands, ,P. Denes ,,Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States, ,N. Desai ,,Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, ,A. Dollar ,,Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, ,M. J. Domanski ,,Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, New York, United States, ,R. M. Doroghazi ,,The Physician Investors Newsletter, Columbia, Missouri, United States, ,G. Dorros ,,Arizona Heart Foundation, Phoenix, Arizona, United States, ,R. Elosua ,,Hospital del Mar Institute for Medical Research, Barcelona, Spain, ,T.R Engel ,,COOPER HEALTH SYSTEM, ,A. E. Epstein ,,University of Pennsylvania Penn Medicine Perelman School of Medicine Department of Medicine Division of Cardiovascular Medicine Electrophysiology Section, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, ,N.A. Estes ,,UPMC Presbyterian, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, ,R. H. Falk ,,Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, ,D.N. Feldman ,,NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL, New York, New York, United States, ,T. Feldman ,,NorthShore University HealthSystem, Evanston, Illinois, United States, ,G. Figtree ,,The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, ,J.L. Fleg ,,National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, ,G.F. Fletcher ,,Mayo Clinic Hospital Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida, United States, ,J.A. Franciosa ,,LONG ISLAND COLLEGE HOSPITAL, Brooklyn, New York, United States, ,J. Francis ,,Government Medical College Kozhikode, Kozhikode, India, ,A. Fujiki ,,Shizuoka General Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan, ,W.B Fye ,,Mayo Clinic Rochester, Rochester, Minnesota, United States, ,W.H. Gaasch ,,Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Burlington, Massachusetts, United States, ,J.M. Gardin ,,Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, New Jersey, United States, ,S.D Gertz ,,The Hebrew University of Jerusalem School of Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel, ,I.C. Gilchrist ,,PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States, ,D.L. Glancy ,,LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, ,S.P. Glasser ,,The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States, ,M.R. Gold ,,Medical University of South Carolina College of Medicine, Charleston, South Carolina, United States, ,S. Goldhaber ,,Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, ,R.E. Goldstein ,,UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES-DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY, ,S.A. Goldstein ,,MEDSTAR HEALTH VNA INC, ,K. L. Gould ,,The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston John P and Katherine G McGovern Medical School, ,C.L. Hansen ,,Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, ,M.E. Harinstein ,,UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute, White Oak, Pennsylvania, United States, ,D.C. Harrison ,,University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, ,J.A. Hill ,,UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER, ,M. Hong ,,Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital, New York, New York, United States, ,W.G. Hundley ,,Wake Forest University School of Medicine, ,A. S. Jaffe ,,Mayo Clinic, Professor of Cardiology and Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, ,J. Jefferies ,,The University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, Tennessee, United States, ,H. Jneid ,,Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States, ,T. Kahan ,,Karolinska Institute, Huddinge, Sweden, ,G.L. Kaluza ,,Skirball Center For Innovation, Orangeburg, New York, United States, ,B.K. Kantharia ,,Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Cardiovascular and Heart Rhythm Consultants, New York, New York, United States, ,T.S. Kato ,,Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan, ,M. Kelm ,,Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany, ,K.M. Kent ,,MEDSTAR HEALTH VNA INC, Washington, District of Columbia, United States, ,P. Kligfield ,,Weill Cornell Medicine Joan and Sanford I Weill Department of Medicine, New York, New York, United States, ,R. Kloner ,,Huntington Medical Research Institutes, Pasadena, California, United States, ,J.B Kostis ,,Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School New Brunswick, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States, ,W.J. Kostis ,,MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, ,R.A. Lange ,,Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso Center of Emphasis in Infectious Diseases, El Paso, Texas, United States, ,C.J. Lavie ,,Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute, ,C. Leier ,,OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER, Columbus, Ohio, United States, ,B.T. Liang ,,UConn Health, Farmington, Connecticut, United States, ,D. Linker ,,University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States, ,G. Y. H. Lip ,,University of Liverpool, ,A. S. Luis ,,Mayo Clinic School of Health Sciences Echocardiography Program, Rochester, Minnesota, United States, ,F. E. Marchlinski ,,University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, ,F.I. Marcus ,,University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States, ,B. Maron ,,Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, ,B. A. Maron ,,Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, ,M.S. Maron ,,Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, ,R.P. Martin ,,PIEDMONT HEART INSTITUTE, ,Charles Maynard ,,University of Washington, ,A. Mazur ,,The University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, United States, ,R.G. McKay ,,Hartford Hospital, Hartford, Connecticut, United States, ,J.L. Mehta ,,University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Arkansas Nanomedicine Center, ,F.H. Messerli ,,Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, ,E.L. Michelson ,,Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, ,R. V. Milani ,,Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute, ,A.B. Miller ,,University of Florida College of Medicine - Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida, United States, ,W.L. Miller ,,Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, Rochester, Minnesota, United States, ,G.S. Mintz ,,Cardiovascular Research Foundation, New York, New York, United States, ,P. Muntner ,,The University of Alabama at Birmingham, ,G. V. Naccarelli ,,Penn State College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States, ,R. Narin ,,University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York, United States, ,W.T. O'Neal ,,Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States, ,E.M. Ohman ,,Duke Heart Center, ,S.T. Palmeri ,,Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States, ,E. Passamani ,,Suburban Hospital Inc, Bethesda, Maryland, United States, ,C.J. Pepine ,,University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, Florida, United States, ,B. Pitt ,,UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States, ,E. V. Platia ,,MedStar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, District of Columbia, United States, ,A.A. Quyyumi ,,Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia, United States, ,C.V. Ram ,,UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER, Dallas, Texas, United States, ,N. Reichek ,,Saint Francis Hospital The Heart Center, ,L.E. Rosenfeld ,,Yale University Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, ,D.J. Schneider ,,University of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, Vermont, United States, ,J.S. Schroeder ,,Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States, ,P.W. Serruys ,,Erasmus Medical Center, ,P.M. Shah ,,Hoag Memorial Presbyterian Hospital, Newport Beach, California, United States, ,P.K. Shah ,,CEDARS-SIANI MEDICAL CENTER, ,J. Shirani ,,St Luke's University Health Network, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States, ,R. Siegel ,,CEDARS-SIANI MEDICAL CENTER, Los Angeles, California, United States, ,M.A. Silver ,,Advocate Christ Medical Center, Oak Lawn, Illinois, United States, ,R.J. Simpson, Jr. ,,University of North Carolina System, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, ,S.N. Singh ,,Washington DC VA Medical Center, Washington, District of Columbia, United States, ,F. W. Smart ,,Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Human Development Center, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, ,J. Somberg ,,Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States, ,L.W. Stevenson ,,BRIGHAM WOMENS HOSPITAL, ,R. Stouffer ,,The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, ,J.R. Stratton ,,University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States, ,J.M. Tobis ,,University of California Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine, ,R. Verdino ,,University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, ,G.W. Vetrovec ,,VCU Health Pauley Heart Center, Richmond, United States, ,R. Waksman ,,MedStar Washington Hospital Center, MedStar Heart and Vascular Institute, ,D. Waters ,,University of California San Francisco, ,R.L. Wilensky ,,University of Pennsylvania Hillel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, ,J.T. Willerson ,,University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States, ,D. Zipes ,,Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States,In Infants and Children ,H.D. Allen ,,Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, Texas, United States, ,B.S. Alpert ,,UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE MEDICAL CENTER, ,R. T. Collins ,II,Stanford University School of Medicine, United States, ,J. Kugler ,,Children's Physicians Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska, United States,Cardiovascular Surgery ,E.H. Blackstone ,,Cleveland Clinic, ,L.I. Bonchek ,,Lancaster General Hospital, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States, ,D. Chu ,,University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, ,J. Elefteriades ,,Yale University School of Medicine Yale Center for Thoracic Aortic Disease, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, ,R. Lee ,,University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, ,C. S. Roberts ,,Baylor University Medical Center Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery, Dallas, Texas, United States, ,H.V. Schaff ,,Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, Rochester, Minnesota, United States, ,L. H Stein ,,Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, United States,Related Specialists ,L. Berglund ,,University of California Davis Medical Center, ,L. M. Buja ,,University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, United States, ,J-P. Després ,,Laval University, Quebec, Quebec, Canada, ,M. Emmett ,,Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, Texas, United States, ,B. Franklin ,,William Beaumont Hospital - Royal Oak, Royal Oak, Michigan, United States, ,C.B. Higgins ,,University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States, ,M.D. Kertai ,,Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States, ,J. Saffitz ,,BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, ,R. Virmani ,,CVPath Institute Inc