Editors
Prof. Dr. med. Paul Erne
Kardiologie, Kantonsspital Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. med. Augusto Franco Gallino
Servizio di cardiologia, Ospedale San Giovanni, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. med. Bernhard Meier
Kardiologie, Inselspital, Bern, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. med. Matthias Pfisterer
Kardiologie, Departement Innere Medizin, Universitätsspital Basel, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. med. Hans Rickli
Kardiologie, Kantonsspital St. Gallen, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. med. Christian Seiler
Universitätsklinik für Kardiologie, Bern, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. med. Bernard Waeber
Division de physiopathologie, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland
Advisory Board
Prof. Dr. med. Dan Atar, Oslo, Norway
Prof. Dr. med. Angelo Auricchio, Lugano, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. med. Edouard Battegay, Zürich, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. med. Osmund Bertel, Zürich, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. med. Mario G. Bianchetti, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. med. Peter Bösiger, Zürich, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. med. Fritz R. Bühler, Basel, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. med. Michel Burnier, Lausanne, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. med. Peter Buser, Basel, Switzerland
Dr. med. Edoardo Camenzind, Genève, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. med. Paolo G. Camici, Milano, Italy
Prof. Dr. med. Thierry Carrel, Bern, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. med. Stéphane Cook, Fribourg, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. med. Roberto Corti, Zürich, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. med. Francesco Cosentino, Stockholm, Sweden
Prof. Dr. med. John Deanfield, London, England
Prof. Dr. med. Franz R. Eberli, Zürich, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. med. Walter Häfeli, Heidelberg, Germany
Prof. Dr. med. Daniel Hayoz, Lausanne, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. med. Otto Martin Hess, Bern, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. med. Kurt Jäger, Basel, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. med. Rolf Jenni, Zürich, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. med. John J. P. Kastelein, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Prof. Dr. med. Zvonimir S. Katusic, Rochester, USA
Prof. Dr. med. Philipp Kaufmann, Zürich, Switzerland
Prof. med. Brenda Kwak-Chanson, Genève, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. med. Mario Lachat, Zürich, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. med. Roger Lehmann, Zürich, Switzerland
PD Dr. med. Micha Maeder, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. med. Willibald Maier, Zürich, Switzerland
PD Dr. Robert Manka, Zürich, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. med. Claudio Marone, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. med. Franz H. Messerli, Bern Switzerland
Prof. Dr. med. Tiziano Moccetti, Lugano, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. med. Paul Mohacsi, Bern, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. med. Christian Müller, Basel, Switzerland
PD Dr. med. Mehdi Namdar, Genève, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. med. Stephan Osswald, Basel, Switzerland
PD Dr. med. Giovanni Pedrazzini, Lugano, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. med. Jacques Philippe, Genève, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. med. Osman Ratib, Genève, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. phil. Thérèse J. Resink, Basel, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. med. Peter Rickenbacher, Bruderholz, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. med. Hans Rickli, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Walter Riesen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. med. Marco Roffi, Genève, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. med. Frank Ruschitzka, Zürich, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. med. Hugo Saner, Bern, Switzerland
Dr. med. Urs Scherrer, Lausanne, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. med. Jürg Schwitter, Lausanne, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. med. Paolo M. Suter, Zürich, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. med. Marko Turina, Zürich, Switzerland
Dr. med. Emanuela Valsangia, Zürich, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. med. Paul M. Vanhoutte, Hongkong, China
Prof. Dr. med. Guiseppe Vassalli, Lugano, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. med. Arnold von Eckardstein, Zürich, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. med. Gustav K. von Schulthess, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. med. Ludwig K. von Segesser, Lausanne, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. med. Peter Wenaweser, Bern, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. med. Gregor Zünd, Zürich, Switzerland