Guest Reviewers for The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon

We would like to extend our most sincere thanks to the 166 individuals listed below. All of them have voluntarily contributed to the quality of this journal by performing reviews upon invitation in the year 2013, both for ThCVS and ThCVS Reports. Their dedication is essential for keeping the high standards of our bilaterally blinded peer review process.

The list has again grown from 153 last year. These additions have helped to bring down the average workload, which in 2013 ranged from one to 12 manuscripts.

The reviewers 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 2014.

Markus K. Heinemann

Editor-in-Chief

on behalf of the Editorial Board and Thieme Medical Publishers

Tobias Achenbach

Johannes Albes

Manuel de Jesus Antunes

Rüdiger Autschbach

Tayfun Aybek

Georg Bachmann

Robert Bauernschmitt

Andreas Beckmann

Safet Beqiri

Thomas V. Bilfinger

Sabine Bleiziffer

Johannes Blumenstein

Dietmar Boethig

Johannes Bodner

Servet Bölükbas

Nikolaos Bonaros

Andreas Böning

Michael Borger

Roland Brandt

Dirk Buchwald

Antonio Calafiore

Roman Carbon

Thierry P. Carrel

Yeong-Hoon Choi

Martin Czerny

Sabine Däbritz

Bernhard Danner

Stefanos Demertzis

Heinz Deschka

Stefan Dhein

Daniel Dirkmann

Duilio Divisi

Torsten Doenst

Guido Dohmen

Nicolas Doll

Bernhard Dorweiler

Omer Dzemali

Friedrich Eckstein

Stephan Eggeling

Sandra Eifert

Lars Englberger

Ina Ennker

Stephan Ensminger

Rick Esposito

Aristomenis K. Exadaktylos

Volkmar Falk

Peter Feindt

Godehard Friedel

Henning Gaissert

Ines Gockel

Gerold Görlach

Martin Grabenwöger

Thomas Graeter

Jan Grandjean

Veronika Grau

Matthias Gutberlet

Angelika Gutenberg

Werner Haberbosch

Ulrich Hake

Serdar Han

Wolfgang Harringer

Martin Hartrumpf

Andreas Hecker

Matthias Hecker

Khosro Hekmat

Wolfgang Hemmer

Markus Hirschburger

Walter Hitzler

Hans-Stefan Hofmann

Thomas Hoppert

Michael Hübler

Martin Hürtgen

Illka Ilonen

Yoshimi Iwanuma

Jörg Jonas

Yoshiaki Kajiyama

Klaus Kallenbach

Matthias Karck

Renate Kaulitz

Thomas Kiefer

Dalokay Kilic

Martin Kopp

Thorsten Kramm

Jens-Holger Krannich

Arno Krian

Ludwig Lampl

Georg Langebartels

Gunda Leschber

Tsvetomir Loukanov

Alfred Maier

Andreas Martens

Sven Martens

Malek Massad

Klaus Matschke

Peter Matt

Eckhard Mayer

Johannes Merk

Matthias Michal

Matthias Miederer

Virginia Miller

Martin Misfeld

Shinji Miyamoto

Wolfgang Moersig

Rainer Moosdorf

Ludwig Müller

Achim Neufang

Georg Nickenig

Martin Oberhoffer

Kazunori Okabe

Ryo Okabe

Karl-Heinz Orend

Wilfried Padberg

Joachim Pfannschmidt

Ardawan Rastan

Beate Rau

Hermann Reichenspurner

Oliver Reuthebuch

Francis Robicsek

Gaetano Rocco

Thomas Rostock

Matthias Roth

Peter Roth

Jarmo Salo

Christoph Schimmer

Ehrenfried Schindler

Bettina Schlolaut

Christof Schmid

Franz-Xaver Schmid

Ralph Schmid

Johannes Schmidt

Christoph Schmitz

Michael Schmoeckel

Friedrich Schoendube

Alexandra Schramm

Mathias Schreckenberger

Christian Schreiber

Michael Schwarzer

Michael Schweigert

Malakh Shrestha

Hans-Hinrich Sievers

Nicodème Sinzobahamvya

Volker Steger

Brigitte Stiller

Erich Stoelben

Jeanette Strametz-Juranek

Martin Strüber

Peter Tassani-Prell

Holger Thiele

Gaetano Thiene

Alper Toker

Georg Trummer

Paul Urbanski

Klaus Valeske

Esther von Stebut-Borschitz

Robert Voswinckel

Tobias Walker

Thomas Walther

Wolfgang Wandschneider

Go Watanabe

Tobias Welte

Daniel Wendt

Karsten Wiebe

Biruta Witte

Hiromasa Yamamoto

Heike Zabeck

Tibor Ziegelhoeffer