JOURNAL OF CARDIAC FAILURE
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Barry M. Massie University of California, VA Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Kanu Chatterjee, San Francisco, CA Kathleen A. Dracup, San Francisco, CA Sharon A. Hunt, Stanford, CA Joel S. Karliner, San Francisco, CA Leslie A. Saxon, Los Angeles, CA Nelson B. Schiller, San Francisco, CA Paul C. Simpson, San Francisco, CA John R. Teerlink, San Francisco, CA
MANAGING EDITOR
Cheryl Yano
FOUNDING EDITOR
Jay N. Cohn, Minneapolis, MN
SENIOR CONSULTING EDITOR
William W. Parmley, San Francisco, CA
CONSULTING EDITORS
John G.F. Cleland, Kingston upon Hull, UK Ralph D'Agostino, Jr, Winston-Salem, NC Sidney Goldstein, Detroit, MI Peter D. Guarino, West Haven, CT Shigetake Sasayama, Kyoto, Japan
EDITORIAL BOARD
Willliam T. Abraham, Columbus, OH Kirkwood F. Adams, Jr, Chapel Hill, NC Inderjit Anand, Minneapolis, MN Stefan D. Anker, London, England Maria N. Ansari, Los Angeles, CA J. Malcolm O. Arnold, London, Ontario, Canada David Baker, Chicago, IL Susan J. Bennett, Indianapolis, IN Philip Binkley, Columbus, OH Michael R. Bristow, Denver, CO Wilson S. Colucci, Boston, MA Teresa DeMarco, San Francisco, CA David DeNofrio, Boston, MA Kenneth Dickstein, Stavenger, Norway Helmut Drexler, Hannover, Germany Eric J. Eichhorn, Dallas, TX Erlund Erdmann, Köln, Germany Arthur M. Feldman, Philadelphia, PA Gregg C. Fonarow, Los Angeles, CA Gary S. Francis, Cleveland, OH William H. Gaasch, Burlington, MA Jalal K. Ghali, Shreveport, LA Thomas D. Giles, New Orleans, LA Steven Goldman, Tuscon, AZ Steven R. Goldsmith, Minneapolis, MN Stephen S. Gottlieb, Baltimore, MD Barry H. Greenberg, San Diego, CA Paul A. Heidenreich, Palo Alto, CA Denise D. Hermann, San Diego, CA Matatsugu Hori, Osaka, Japan Steven R. Houser, Philadelphia, PA Tohru Izumi, Sagamihara, Japan Seigo Izumo, Boston, MA Bodh I. Jugdutt, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Arnold M. Katz, Norwich, VT Stuart D. Katz, New Haven, CT Akira Kitabatake, Sapporo, Japan Jon Kobashigawa, Los Angeles, CA Marvin A. Konstam, Boston, MA Roberto Latini, Milan, Italy Carl V. Leier, Columbus, OH Thierry H. LeJemtel, Bronx, NY T. Barry Levine, Pittsburgh, PA JoAnn Lindenfeld, Denver, CO Sheldon Litwin, Salt Lake City, UT Carlin S. Long, Denver, CO Bernard Maisch, Marburg, Germany Douglas L. Mann, Houston, TX Akira Matsumori, Kyoto, Japan Matsunori Matsuzaki, Yamaguchi, Japan Patrick M. McCarthy, Cleveland, OH Gordon W. Moe, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Debra K. Moser, Lexington, KY Ryozo Nagi, Tokyo, Japan John O'Connell, Detroit, MI Maria Teresa Olivari, Minneapolis, MN Marc A. Pfeffer, Boston, MA Ileana Piña, Cleveland, OH Bertram Pitt, Ann Arbor, MI Philip Poole-Wilson, London, UK Mark B. Ratcliffe, San Francisco, CA Margaret Redfield, Rochester, MN Michael W. Rich, St Louis, MO Barbara J. Riegel, Philadelphia, PA John Ross, La Jolla, CA Jean Rouleau, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Hani N. Sabbah, Detroit, MI Michael D. Schneider, Houston, TX D. Norman Sharpe, Auckland, New Zealand Marc A. Silver, Oak Lawn, IL Michael J. Sole, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Edmund Sonnenblick, Bronx, NY Francis G. Spinale, Charleston, SC Lynne Warner Stevenson, Boston, MA William G. Stevenson, Boston, MA Karl Swedberg, Göteborg, Sweden Akira Takeshita, Fukuoka, Japan Hector Ventura, New Orleans, LA Clyde W. Yancy, Dallas, TX James B. Young, Cleveland, OH Irving Zucker, Omaha, NE
FULL TEXT