Affiliations

• ¹ Cardiothoracic Department, via Paradisa 2, 56124 Pisa, Italy. Electronic address: mario.marzilli@med.unipi.it.
• ² DV University of Medicine and Pharmacy Carol Davila, University and Emergency Hospital, Bucharest, Romania.
• ³ Cardiovascular Research Centre, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
• ⁴ Chinese PLA General Hospital, China.
• ⁵ Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, Mumbai, India.
• ⁶ Department of Cardiology, HEGP, AP-HP, 75015 Paris, France; Université Paris-Descartes, 75006 Paris, France.
• ⁷ Department of Cardiology, Ain Shams University Hospitals, Cairo, Egypt.
• ⁸ Centro Cardiologico Universitario di Ferrara, University of Ferrara, Italy.
• ⁹ Heart Institute, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
• ¹⁰ Volgograd State Medical University, Cardiology Center, Volgograd, Russia.
• ¹¹ Department for Cardiovascular Diseases, University Hospital Center Zagreb, University of Zagreb, Croatia.
• ¹² Institute of Cardiology, Kiev, Ukraine.
• ¹³ Faculty of Medicine, University of Lisbon, Portugal; Cardiology Department, Heart and Vascular Department, University Hospital, CHLN, Portugal.
• ¹⁴ Centre for Heart Diseases, Military Hospital, 50-981 Wrocław, Poland.
• ¹⁵ University of Belgrade School of Medicine, Serbia.
• ¹⁶ Cardiovascular and Cell Sciences Research Institute, St George's University, London, UK; IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana, Rome, Italy.