Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Electronic address: rlkvad1951@gmail.com.
• ² Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
• ³ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Montefiore Medical Center, New York, New York.
• ⁴ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Henry Ford Hospitals, Detroit, Michigan.
• ⁵ Department of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.
• ⁶ Department of Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama.
• ⁷ Department of Medicine, Jefferson Health, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• ⁸ Division of Cardiology, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
• ⁹ Bayview Infectious Disease Consultants, Chesapeake, Virginia.
• ¹⁰ Department of Cardiology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
• ¹¹ Department of Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• ¹² Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
• ¹³ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Swiss Cardiovascular Center, Inselspital, University Hospital Bern, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
• ¹⁴ Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky.
• ¹⁵ Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin, German Centre for Cardiovascular Research, Berlin, Germany.
• ¹⁶ Division of Cardiac Surgery, Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• ¹⁷ Department of Cardiac Surgery, Center for Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
• ¹⁸ Division of Cardiology, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah.
• ¹⁹ Advanced Heart Failure Clinic, Baylor Scott and White, Dallas, Texas.
• ²⁰ Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.