Editorial Board
Editor-in-Chief
Mário Oliveira, MD, PhD
Hospital de Santa Marta, Lisboa, Portugal
Deputy Director - Deputy Editor
Manuel J. Antunes
Subdirectors - Associate Editors
Carlos Aguiar
Ana G. Almeida
Manuel Almeida
Dulce Brito
Daniel Caldeira
J. Silva Cardoso
Hélder Dores
Jorge Ferreira
Henrique Girão
Fátima Pinto
Rui Providência
Supplements Editor
Carlos Aguiar
Editorial Board
Ana Abreu
Pedro Antunes
Rui Terenas Baptista
Nuno Bettencourt
H. Cyrne de Carvalho
Diogo Magalhães Cavaco
Cândida Fonseca
Ricardo Fontes Carvalho
Marco Costa, Jose Fragata
Ana Galrinho
Cristina Gavina
Alexandra Gonçalves
Luís Rocha Lopes
Filipe Macedo
Miguel Mendes
Jorge Mimoso
Eduardo Infante Oliveira
Evangelista Rocha
Mário Santos
Paulo Sousa
Miguel Sousa Uva
Ethics Editor
Mário G. Lopes
Consulting Editors
Victor Gil
Lino Gonçalves
Multimedia Team
Ricardo Fontes-Carvalho (Editor)
Cláudio Guerreiro, Fernando Montenegro Sá
Editorial and Bibliographic Consultant
Helena Donato
Editorial Assistants
Luís Duarte
Isabel Moreira Ribeiro
TranslatorS
Phillippa Bennett
National Scientific Council
Pedro Adragão
Aníbal Albuquerque
Ana Aleixo
Ana G. Almeida
A Mata Antunes
Manuel Antunes
Vasco Araújo
Pedro Bastos
Daniel Bonhorst
Fernando Brandão
Manuel Campelo
S. Massano Cardoso
J. Pinto Carmona
Manuel Carrageta
Fátima Ceia
J. Gorjão Clara
J. Martins Correia
Maria José Correia
C. Azevedo Coutinho
João Cravino
Luís Elvas
Daniel Ferreira
Rafael Ferreira
José Fragata
Mário Freitas
Victor Gil
M. Rodrigues Gomes
F. Rocha Gonçalves
Lino Gonçalves
Sashicanta Kaku
A. Leite-Moreira
C. Abreu Lima
Manuela Lima
Armando Longo
Mário Lopes
Filipe Macedo
M. Espiga Macedo
M. Júlia Maciel
Hugo Madeira
F. Maymone Martins
J. Queiroz e Melo
J. Pereira Miguel
João Morais
J. Braz Nogueira
Walter Oswald
Fernando de Pádua
Carlos Perdigão
Armando Pereirinha
Paulo Pinho
Fausto J. Pinto
Jorge Polónia
João Primo
Rui Proença
Luís Providência
Luciano Ravara
Paulo Ribeiro
Vasco Ribeiro
Evangelista Rocha
Pedro Rodrigues
José Roquette
Armando L. Bordalo e Sá
C. Spencer Salomão
A. Laureano Santos
A. Lema Santos
J. Aniceto Silva
J. Martins e Silva
João de Sousa
J. Lopo Tuna
International Scientific Council
Alexandre Cunha Abizai / Brasil
Denilson Campos de Albuquerque/ Brasil
Fernando Alfonso / Spain
Jesus Almendral / Spain
Giuseppe Ambrósio / Italy
Eduard Apetrei / Romania
Francisco F. Avilés / Spain
Jean-Pierre Bassand / France
Michel Bertrand / France
Gunther Breithardt /Germany
Raffaelle de Caterina / Italy
Sergio Chierchia / Italy
Dennis V. Cokkinos / Greece
Juan Cosin-Aguillar / Spain
Josep Brugada / Spain
José M. Cruz Fernández / Spain
Nicolas Danchin / France
Jean Paul Delahaye / France
Geneviève Derumeaux / France
Raimund Erbel / Germany
Leif R. Erhardt / Sweeden
Jerónimo Farré / Spain
Miguel Angel García-Fernández /Spain
Roberto Ferrari / Italy
Raul Dias dos Santos Filho / Brasil
Ferenc Follath / Switzerland
Kim Fox / United Kingdom
Jonh E. Gialafos / Creece
Bernard J. Gersh / USA
Chris Hamm / Germany
Bijoy Khanderia / USA
Michel Komajda / France
Dennis Krikler / United Kingdom
Patrizio Lancellotti / Bélgica
Daniel Loisance / France
José Lopéz-Sendón / Spain
Antonio Bayés de Luna / Spain
Carlos Macaya / Spain
Anthony de Maria / EUA
Tom Marwick / Austrália
Attilio Maser / Itália
Marcus Bolívar Malachias / Brasil
Claudio Tinoco Mesquita / Brasil
Neil Moore / USA
Luiz Felipe P. Moreira / Brasil
Ermelindo del Nero / Brasil
Markku Nieminen / Finland
Gláucia Moraes de Oliveira / Brasil
Ali Oto / Turkey
Julius Gy Papp / Hungary
Oberdan Parodi / Italy
Francisco Perez-Gomez / Spain
Fábio Vilas-Boas / Brasil
Bertram Pitt / USA
Richard Popp / USA
Silvia Priori / Italy
Vedat Sansoy / Turkey
Raul Dias dos Santos / Brasil
Mauricio Scanavacca / Brasil
Karin Sipido / Bélgica
Otto Smiseth / Noruega
Jordi Soler Soler / Spain
Ricardo Stein / Brasil
George Sutherland / Bélgica
Miguel Torner Soler / Spain
Michael Tendera / Polónia
Richard Underwood / United Kingdom
Mani Vannan / EUA
Ernest van der Wall / Holland
Franz van der Werf / Belgium
Panus Vardas / Greece
Petr Widimslky / Czech Republic
José Zamorano / Spain
Leandro loschpe Zimerman / Brasil
