Guest Reviewers for The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon

We would like to extend our most sincere thanks to the 153 individuals listed below. All of them have voluntarily contributed to the quality of this journal by performing reviews upon invitation in the year 2012. Their dedication is essential for keeping the high standards of our bilaterally blinded peer review process.

The list has grown considerably from 110 last year. With only a few retiring, these additions have helped to bring down the average workload, which in 2012 ranged from one to 17 manuscripts, not counting the numerous revised versions.

The guest reviewers and the members of the International Advisory Board (who are marked with an asterisk*) share most of the burdens but only few of the pleasures which editing a scientific journal implies. This modest “thank you” from the editorial staff and the publishers is meant to serve as an acknowledgement of your services. We hope you will continue to assist us in 2013.

Markus K. Heinemann

Editor-in-Chief

on behalf of the Editorial Board and Thieme Medical Publishers

Tobias Achenbach

Manuel de Jesus Antunes*

Rawa Arif

Rüdiger Autschbach

Tayfun Aybek*

Georg Bachmann

Safet Beqiri

Thomas V. Bilfinger*

Sabine Bleiziffer

Udo Boeken

Dietmar Boethig

Servet Bölükbas

Nikolaos Bonaros

Andreas Böning

Roland Brandt

Antonio Calafiore*

Roman Carbon

Yeong-Hoon Choi

Martin Czerny

Bernhard Danner

Stefanos Demertzis

Heinz Deschka

Ali Dodge-Khatami

Torsten Doenst

Guido Dohmen

Bernhard Dorweiler

Omer Dzemali

Friedrich Eckstein

Stephan Eggeling

Sandra Eifert

Ali El-Armouche

Lars Englberger

Ina Ennker

Stephan Ensminger

Michael Erb

Rick Esposito*

Aristomenis K. Exadaktylos

Peter Feindt

Ines Gockel

Klaus Görlinger

Martin Grabenwöger*

Thomas Graeter

Jan Grandjean

Veronika Grau

Jan Groetzner

Angelika Gutenberg

Stefan Guth

Werner Haberbosch

Ulrich Hake

Serdar Han

Martin Hartrumpf

Axel Haverich

Andreas Hecker

Matthias Hecker

Khosro Hekmat

Wolfgang Hemmer

Markus Hirschburger

Walter Hitzler

Thomas Hohlfeld

Thomas Hoppert

Martin Hürtgen

Christof Huth

Yoshimi Iwanuma

Heinz G. Jakob

Jörg Jonas

Ingo Kaczmarek

Yoshiaki Kajiyama

Klaus Kallenbach

Markus Kamler

Renate Kaulitz

Thomas Kiefer

Michael Knaut

Werner Kneist

Martin Kopp

Thorsten Kramm

Jens-Holger Krannich

Arno Krian

Ludwig Lampl

Georg Langebartels

Gunda Leschber

Thomas Lesser

Andreas Liebold

Tsvetomir Loukanov

Katharina Madlener

Alfred Maier*

Klaus Mann

Sven Martens

Malek Massad*

Peter Matt

Eckhard Mayer

Uwe Mehlhorn

Johannes Merk

Virginia Miller

Martin Misfeld

Shinji Miyamoto*

Wolfgang Moersig

Rainer Moosdorf

Anton Moritz

Ludwig Müller

Achim Neufang

Masamichi Ono

Wilfried Padberg

Joachim Pfannschmidt

Joachim Photiadis

Diethard Prüfer

Beate Rau

Oliver Reuthebuch

Michael Ried

Francis Robicsek

Thomas Rostock

Peter Roth

Arjang Ruhparwar

Jarmo Salo

Hans-Joachim Schäfers

Christoph Schimmer

Ehrenfried Schindler

Bettina Schlolaut

Franz-Xaver Schmid

Ralph Schmid

Johannes Schmidt

Christoph Schmitz

Michael Schmoeckel

Alexandra Schramm

Michael Schwarzer

Nicodème Sinzobahamvya

Clemens Sommer

Johannes Sperzel

Volker Steger

Erich Stoelben

Jeanette Strametz-Juranek

Peter Tassani-Prell

Gaetano Thiene*

Alper Toker

Georg Trummer

Paul Urbanski

Engin Usta

Hannah Valantine

Klaus Valeske

Stefanie Veit

Robert Voswinckel

Thorsten Wahlers

Tobias Walker

Thorsten Walles

Wolfgang Wandschneider

Go Watanabe*

Stefan Welter

Karsten Wiebe

Gerhard Wimmer-Greinecker

Biruta Witte

Hiromasa Yamamoto

Heike Zabeck

Armin Zittermann

Gregor Zünd