- Hiroaki Kitaoka
Department of Cardiology and Geriatrics, Kochi Medical School, Kochi University [Japan]
- Hiroyuki Tsutsui
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Kyushu University [Japan]
- Toru Kubo
Department of Cardiology and Geriatrics, Kochi Medical School, Kochi University [Japan]
- Tomomi Ide
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Kyushu University [Japan]
- Taishiro Chikamori
Department of Cardiology, Tokyo Medical University Hospital [Japan]
- Keiichi Fukuda
Department of Cardiology, Keio University School of Medicine [Japan]
- Noboru Fujino
Department of Cardiovascular and Internal Medicine, Kanazawa University, Graduate School of Medical Science [Japan]
- Taiki Higo
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Kyushu University Graduate School of Medical Sciences [Japan]
- Mitsuaki Isobe
Sakakibara Heart Institute [Japan]
- Chizuko Kamiya
Department of Perinatology and Gynecology, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center [Japan]
- Seiya Kato
Division of Pathology, Saiseikai Fukuoka General Hospital [Japan]
- Yasuki Kihara
Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital [Japan]
- Koichiro Kinugawa
Second Department of Internal Medicine, University of Toyama [Japan]
- Shintaro Kinugawa
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Kyushu University [Japan]
- Shigetoyo Kogaki
Department of Pediatrics and Neonatology, Osaka General Medical Center [Japan]
- Issei Komuro
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo [Japan]
- Nobuhisa Hagiwara
Department of Cardiology, Tokyo Women’s Medical University [Japan]
- Minoru Ono
Department of Cardiac Surgery, The University of Tokyo Hospital [Japan]
- Yuichiro Maekawa
Division of Cardiology, Internal Medicine III, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine [Japan]
- Shigeru Makita
Department of Cardiac Rehabilitation, Saitama International Medical Center, Saitama Medical University [Japan]
- Yoshiro Matsui
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Hanaoka Seishu Memorial Hospital [Japan]
- Shouji Matsushima
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Kyushu University [Japan]
- Yasushi Sakata
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine [Japan]
- Yoshiki Sawa
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine [Japan]
- Wataru Shimizu
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Nippon Medical School [Japan]
- Kunihiko Teraoka
Department of Cardiology, Sakakibara Heart Institute [Japan]
- Miyuki Tsuchihashi-Makaya
School of Nursing, Kitasato University [Japan]
- Hatsue Ishibashi-Ueda
Department of Pathology, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center [Japan]
- Masafumi Watanabe
Department of Cardiology, Pulmonology, and Nephrology, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine [Japan]
- Michihiro Yoshimura
Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine [Japan]
- Arata Fukusima
Asabu Heart & Gastrointestinal Clinic [Japan]
- Satoshi Hida
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Tokyo Medical University [Japan]
- Shungo Hikoso
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine [Japan]
- Teruhiko Imamura
Second Department of Internal Medicine, University of Toyama [Japan]
- Hiroko Ishida
Nippon Medical School, Musashikosugi Hospital [Japan]
- Makoto Kawai
Division of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, The Jikei University School of Medicine [Japan]
- Toshiro Kitagawa
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Hiroshima University Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences [Japan]
- Takashi Kohno
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Kyorin University School of Medicine [Japan]
- Satoshi Kurisu
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Hiroshima University Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences [Japan]
- Yoji Nagata
Division of Cardiology, Fukui CardioVascular Center [Japan]
- Makiko Nakamura
Second Department of Internal Medicine, University of Toyama [Japan]
- Hiroyuki Morita
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo [Japan]
- Hitoshi Takano
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Nippon Medical School Hospital [Japan]
- Tsuyoshi Shiga
Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, The Jikei University School of Medicine [Japan]
- Yasuyoshi Takei
Department of Cardiology, Tokyo Medical University Hospital [Japan]
- Shinsuke Yuasa
Department of Cardiology, Keio University School of Medicine [Japan]
- Teppei Yamamoto
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Nippon Medical School [Japan]
- Tetsu Watanabe
Department of Cardiology, Pulmonology, and Nephrology, Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine [Japan]
- Takashi Akasaka
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Wakayama Medical University [Japan]
- Yoshinori Doi
Department of Medicine, Chikamori Hospital [Japan]
- Takeshi Kimura
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine [Japan]
- Masafumi Kitakaze
Department of Cardiology, Hanwa Daini Senboku Hospital [Japan]
- Masami Kosuge
Division of Cardiology, Yokohama City University Medical Center [Japan]
- Morimasa Takayama
Department of Cardiology, Sakakibara Heart Institute [Japan]
- Hitonobu Tomoike
Sakakibara Heart Institute [Japan]
- on behalf of the Japanese Circulation Society Joint Working Group