Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Coronary Center, Heart, Vascular, and Thoracic Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio. Electronic address: bakaeef@ccf.org.
• ² Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY.
• ³ Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.
• ⁴ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, University Hospital, Jena, Germany.
• ⁵ Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
• ⁶ Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences, University of Oxford, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom.
• ⁷ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.
• ⁸ Bristol Heart Institute, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom.
• ⁹ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY.
• ¹⁰ Department of Cardiac Surgery, Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai, Los Angeles, Calif.
• ¹¹ Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Tex.
• ¹² Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital, New York, NY.
• ¹³ AdventHealth Transplant Institute, Orlando, Fla.
• ¹⁴ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Heart and Vascular Center, Yale New Haven Health, New Haven, Conn.
• ¹⁵ Department Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, University of Louisville, Louisville, Ky.
• ¹⁶ Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute and Division of Cardiac Surgery in the Department of Surgery, Northwestern University, Chicago, Ill.
• ¹⁷ Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Coronary Center, Heart, Vascular, and Thoracic Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.
• ¹⁸ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St Louis, Mo.