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¹ Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, West Virginia University Morgantown, WVa; Washington Adventist Hospital, Adventist HealthCare, Takoma Park, Md. Electronic address: nivadmd14@gmail.com.
² Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St Louis, Mo.
³ Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, West Virginia University Morgantown, WVa.
⁴ Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md.
⁵ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Academic Hospital Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
⁶ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan.
⁷ Sana Cardiac Surgery Stuttgart GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany.
⁸ WVU Heart and Vascular Institute, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WVa.
⁹ Center for the Study of Chronic Illness and Disability, George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.
¹⁰ Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.

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Niv Ad et al. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2017 Jun.

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doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2017.02.027. Epub 2017 Mar 2.

¹ Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, West Virginia University Morgantown, WVa; Washington Adventist Hospital, Adventist HealthCare, Takoma Park, Md. Electronic address: nivadmd14@gmail.com.
² Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St Louis, Mo.
³ Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, West Virginia University Morgantown, WVa.
⁴ Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md.
⁵ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Academic Hospital Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
⁶ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan.
⁷ Sana Cardiac Surgery Stuttgart GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany.
⁸ WVU Heart and Vascular Institute, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WVa.
⁹ Center for the Study of Chronic Illness and Disability, George Mason University, Fairfax, Va.
¹⁰ Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, The Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.

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An impossible task done well.
Cox JL, McCarthy PM. Cox JL, et al. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2017 Jun;153(6):1355-1356. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2017.03.063. Epub 2017 Mar 24. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2017. PMID: 28526101 No abstract available.