Affiliations

• ¹ Royal Victoria Infimrary, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
• ² BLK Superspeciality Hospital, Delhi, India.
• ³ A. O. L. Sacco, Milan, Italy.
• ⁴ Al Zahra Hospital, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
• ⁵ National University Health System, Singapore, Singapore.
• ⁶ Department of General Surgery, Zhongda Hospital, Southeast University, Nanjing, China.
• ⁷ Motol Faculty Hospital, Surgery Departmet of 2nd medical Faculty of Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
• ⁸ Metro MAS Heart Care & Multispecialty Hospital, Jaipur, India.
• ⁹ Apollo Hospital, Chennai, India.
• ¹⁰ Hospital General de Agudos Dr Teodoro Alvarez, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• ¹¹ Department of General Surgery, The First Affiliated Hospital of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, China.
• ¹² Department of Thoracic surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.
• ¹³ Department of Anesthesiology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.
• ¹⁴ Department of Intensive Care Unit, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.
• ¹⁵ Department of Respiratory, Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, Nanjing, China.
• ¹⁶ Department of General Surgery, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China.
• ¹⁷ Hamad General Hospital, Doha, Qatar.