Kolb, Christof
Sturmer, Marcio
Babuty, Dominique
Sick, Peter
Davy, Jean Marc
Molon, Giulio
Schwab, Jörg Otto
Mantovani, Giuseppe
Wickliffe, Andrew
Lennerz, Carsten
Semmler, Verena
Siot, Pierre-Henri
Reif, Sebastian
Article History
Received: 4 November 2015
Accepted: 26 January 2016
First Online: 19 February 2016
Competing interests
: Dr. C. Kolb has received lecture honorary/travel support from Biotronik, Boston Scientific, Medtronic, St. Jude Medical and Sorin; he is/was a consultant to Biotronik, Boston Scientific and Sorin and has performed clinical studies supported by Biotronik, Boston Scientific, Medtronic, Sorin and St. Jude Medical. Dr. M. Sturmer has received speaker honoraries from Medtronic and consultant honoraries from Boston Scientific and Medtronic. He has performed clinical studies supported by Biotronik, Medtronic, Sorin, St. Jude Medical. Dr. D. Babuty has received travel support from Biotronik, Boston Scientific, Medtronic, Sorin and St. Jude Medical; he has performed clinical studies supported by Biotronik, Medtronic, Sorin and St. Jude Medical. Dr. P. Sick has received a research grant from Sorin. Dr. J. M. Davy has received travel support from Biotronik, Boston, Medtronic, Sorin and St. Jude Medical; he is a consultant to Boston Scientific, Medtronic and Sorin and has performed clinical studies supported by Biotronik, Boston, Medtronic, Sorin and St. Jude Medical. Dr. G. Molon has received travel support from Boston Scientific and Medtronic; he is a consultant to Boston Scientific and Medtronic and has performed clinical studies supported by Boston, Medtronic, Sorin and St. Jude Medical. Dr. J. Schwab has received speaker’s honorarium and research support by Biotronik, Boston Scientific, Medtronic, Sorin and St. Jude Medical. Dr. G. Mantovani has performed clinical studies supported by Medtronic and Sorin. Dr. A. Wickliffe has received lecture honorary from Medtronic. Dr. C. Lennerz has received travel support from Biotronik and St. Jude Medical. Dr. V. Semmler has received travel support from Sorin and St. Jude Medical P-H Siot has received a salary as Sorin employee. Dr. S. Reif has received travel support from Sorin. He has performed clinical studies supported by Biotronik, Medtronic, Sorin and St. Jude Medical.