Front Matter - European Heart Journal

Volume 29 Abstract Supplement
September 2008
Volume 29 Abstract Supplement September 2008 ISSN 0195-668X
EUROPEAN
SOCIETY OF
CARDIOLOGY ®
EUROPEAN
SOCIETY OF
CARDIOLOGY ®
European Heart Journal
European
Heart Journal
Journal of the European Society of Cardiology
FD CONSEIL
ESC Congress 2008
30 August - 3 September
Munich, Germany
ESC Congress 2008: Abstracts
Editor-in-Chief: Frans Van de Werf
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Deputy Editors: Stefan Janssens
Frank Rademakers
Johan Vanhaecke
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ESC Congress 2008, Munich, Germany
30 August – 3 September 2008
European Heart Journal
www.eurheartj.org
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Frans Van de Werf
DEPUTY EDITORS
Stefan Janssens
Frank Rademakers
Johan Vanhaecke
CONSULTING EDITORS
Kim Fox
James T. Willerson
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
André Aubert
Jan Bogaert
Werner Budts
Peter Carmeliet
Désiré Collen
Walter Desmet
Robert Fagard
Willem Flameng
Marc Gewillig
Hein Heidbüchel
Paul Herijgers
Luc Mortelmans
Erik Muls
André Nevelsteen
Paul Sergeant
Peter Sinnaeve
Karin Sipido
Jan Staessen
Raymond Verhaeghe
Jens-Uwe Voigt
Rik Willems
LIAISING EDITORS
North America: Bernard J. Gersh
Asia: Chu-Pak Lau
Australia & New Zealand: Philip Aylward
South America: Ramon Corbalan
Africa: Anthony Dalby
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Inge Hödl
Anita Meuris
Statisticians
Ann Belmans
Emmanuel Lesaffre
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Stefan Agewall (NO)
Fernando Alfonso (ES)
Joseph Alpert (US)
Elliot M. Antman (US)
Eliosa Arbustini (IT)
Diego Ardissino (IT)
Paul W. Armstrong (CA)
Lina Badimon-Maestro (ES)
Jean-Luc Balligand (BE)
Jean-Pierre Bassand (FR)
Eric R. Bates (US)
Alexander Battler (IL)
Helmut Baumgartner (AT)
Jeroen J. Bax (NL)
Oscar Bazzino (AR)
Guy Berkenboom (BE)
Michel E. Bertrand (FR)
Christoph Bode (DE)
Eric Boersma (NL)
Robert O. Bonow (US)
Angelo Branzi (IT)
Eugene Braunwald (US)
Gunter Breithardt (DE)
Pedro Brugada (BE)
Robert M. Califf (US)
François Cambien (FR)
Paolo Camici (UK)
Christopher P. Cannon (US)
John G.F. Cleland (UK)
Andrew J. Coats (AU)
Dennis V. Cokkinos (GR)
Antonio Colombo (IT)
Richard Conti (US)
Filippo Crea (IT)
Harry Crijns (NL)
Nicholas Danchin (FR)
Raffaele De Caterina (IT)
Ebo D. de Muinck (US)
Genevieve Derumeaux (FR)
Rafael Diaz (AR)
Pieter A.F.M. Doevendans (NL)
Helmut Drexler (DE)
Eric Eekhout (CH)
David P. Faxon (US)
Francisco Fernández-Avilés (ES)
Roberto Ferrari (IT)
Moshe Y. Flugelman (IL)
Keith Fox (UK)
Alan G. Fraser (UK)
Valentin Fuster (US)
Nazzareno Galie (IT)
Run-lin Gao (CN)
Michael A. Gatzoulis (UK)
Anthony Gershlick (UK)
Raymond Gibbons (US)
Thierry Gillebert (BE)
Anselm K. Gitt (DE)
Christopher B. Granger (US)
Christian W. Hamm (DE)
Gerd Hasenfuss (DE)
Charles B. Higgins (US)
David R. Holmes, Jr (US)
Dayi Hu (CN)
Kurt Huber (AT)
Steen Husted (DK)
Hiroshi Ito (JP)
Allan S. Jaffe (US)
Yang-Soo Jang (KR)
James L. Januzzi (US)
Karl R. Karsch (UK)
Adnan Kastrati (DE)
Hugo A. Katus (DE)
Patricia Kearney (IE)
Neal S. Kleiman (US)
Michel Komajda (FR)
Steen Dalby Kristensen (DK)
Yean Leng Lim (AU)
Gregory Y.H. Lip (UK)
Federico Lombardi (IT)
José-Luis Lopez Sendon (ES)
Joseph Loscalzo (US)
Thomas Lüscher (CH)
Aldo Maggioni (IT)
Koon-Hou Mak (SG)
Michael Marber (UK)
Gerald Maurer (AT)
William J. McKenna (UK)
John McMurray (UK)
Bernard Meier (CH)
Franz Messerli (US)
Gilles Montalescot (FR)
Elizabeth G. Nabel (US)
Ryozo Nagai (JP)
José C. Nicolau (BR)
Markku Nieminen (FI)
Magnus E. Ohman (US)
Ali Oto (TR)
Terje R. Pedersen (NO)
Dudley Pennell (UK)
Joep Perk (SE)
Marc E. Pfeffer (US)
Mike Picard (US)
Leopoldo Piegas (BR)
Fausto José Pinto (PT)
Philip Poole-Wilson (UK)
Silvia Giuliana Priori (IT)
Eric N. Prystowsky (US)
Witold Ruzyllo (PL)
Lars Rydén (SE)
Albert Schömig (DE)
Marcus Schwaiger (DE)
Ketty Schwartz (FR)
Peter J. Schwartz (IT)
Udo Sechtem (DE)
Victor Serebruany (US)
Patrick Serruys (NL)
Ajay J. Shah (UK)
Maarten L. Simoons (NL)
Otto Smiseth (NO)
Christodoulos Stefanadis (GR)
Gabriel Steg (FR)
Karl Swedberg (SE)
Luigi Tavazzi (IT)
Michal Tendera (PL)
Erik Thaulow (NO)
Gianni Tognoni (IT)
Eric Topol (US)
Adam Torbicki (PL)
Philip Urban (CH)
Alec Vahanian (FR)
Ernst E. van der Wall (NL)
Wiek H. Van Gilst (NL)
Dirk van Veldhuisen (NL)
Panagiotis E. Vardas (GR)
Zvi Vered (IL)
Freek W.A. Verheugt (NL)
Renu Virmani (US)
Lars Wallentin (SE)
Harvey White (NZ)
Petr Widimský (CZ)
William Wijns (BE)
Robert Wilcox (UK)
Kai Wollert (DE)
Kam Sang Woo (HK)
Seppo Ylä-Herttuala (FI)
Jose L. Zamorano (ES)
Andreas M. Zeiher (DE)
Uwe Zeymer (DE)
Felix Zijlstra (NL)