Dae-Hee Kim, MD, PhDa,*, Ran Heo, MDa, Mark D. Handschumacher, BSb, Sahmin Lee, MD, PhDa, Yun-Sil Choi, RN, RDCSa, Kyu-Ri Kim, RN, RDCSa, Yewon Shin, RN, RDCSa, Hong-Kyung Park, RN, RDCSa, Joyce Bischoff, PhDc, Elena Aikawa, MD, PhDd, Jong-Min Song, MD, PhDa, Duk-Hyun Kang, MD, PhDa, Robert A. Levine, MDb, Jae-Kwan Song, MD, PhDa
a Cardiac Imaging Center, Asan Medical Center Heart Institute, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
b Cardiac Ultrasound Laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
c Vascular Biology Program and Department of Surgery, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
d Center for Excellence in Vascular Biology, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
Drs. D.-H. Kim and Heo contributed equally to this work and are joint first authors.
Drs. Levine and J.-K. Song contributed equally to this work and are joint senior authors.
*Address for correspondence: Dr. Dae-Hee Kim, Asan Medical Center Heart Institute, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, 388-1 Poongnap-dong Songpa-gu, Seoul, 138-736 South Korea.