Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Ala. Electronic address: jkirklin@uabmc.edu.
• ² University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
• ³ Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY.
• ⁴ University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn.
• ⁵ Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, NC.
• ⁶ University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.
• ⁷ Banner Health University of Arizona Medical Center, Phoenix, Ariz.
• ⁸ University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
• ⁹ Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Ala.
• ¹⁰ University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
• ¹¹ Langone Medical Center, New York University, New York, NY.
• ¹² Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, NY.
• ¹³ Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic.
• ¹⁴ Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, NY.
• ¹⁵ University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah.
• ¹⁶ Florida Hospital Transplant Institute, Orlando, Fla.
• ¹⁷ University of Louisville, Louisville, Ky.
• ¹⁸ Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Rochester, Minn.
• ¹⁹ Stanford University, Stanford, Calif.
• ²⁰ University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio.
• ²¹ Department for Cardiothoracic Surgery, Newcastle upon Tyne Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom.
• ²² Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass.