OCUS ISSUE: CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY TATE-OF-THE-ART PAPERS ardiac Resynchronization Therapy

eroen J. Bax, MD,* Theodore Abraham, MD, FACC,† S. Serge Barold, MD, FACC,‡ le A. Breithardt, MD,§ Jeffrey W. H. Fung, MD, Stephane Garrigue, MD, PHD,¶ ohn Gorcsan III, MD, FACC,# David L. Hayes, MD, FACC,** David A. Kass, MD,† uhani Knuuti, MD, PHD,†† Christophe Leclercq, MD, PHD,‡‡ Cecilia Linde, MD, PHD,§§ aniel B. Mark, MD, PHD, FACC, Mark J. Monaghan, PHD,¶¶ etros Nihoyannopoulos, MD, FRCP, FACC, FESC,*** Martin J. Schalij, MD,* hristophe Stellbrink, MD,††† Cheuk-Man Yu, MD eiden, the Netherlands; Baltimore, Maryland; Tampa, Florida; Mannheim and Bielefeld, Germany; ong Kong, China; Pessac and Rennes, France; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Rochester, Minnesota; Turku, Finland; tockholm, Sweden; Durham, North Carolina; and London, United Kingdom