Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Heart and Vascular Center Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany. Electronic address: al.bernhardt@uke.de.
• ² Department of Cardiac Surgery, Lutheran Health Physicians, Fort Wayne, Indiana.
• ³ Department of Cardiology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas.
• ⁴ Heart and Vascular Institute, Hartford Hospital, Hartford, Connecticut.
• ⁵ Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: mgivertz@bwh.harvard.edu.
• ⁶ University Heart and Vascular Center Hamburg, Germany.
• ⁷ Hartford Health Care, Heart and Vascular institute at Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT, USA.
• ⁸ Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
• ⁹ Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.
• ¹⁰ West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV, USA.
• ¹¹ University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Slovenia.
• ¹² AO SS Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo, Alessandria, Italy.
• ¹³ University of Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
• ¹⁴ Monaldi Hospital, Azienda dei Colli, Naples, Italy.
• ¹⁵ University of Connecticut School of Pharmacy, Storrs, CT, USA.
• ¹⁶ Sentara Healthcare, Norfolk, VA, USA.
• ¹⁷ Loyola University Chicago, Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, IL, USA.
• ¹⁸ The Prince Charles Hospital, Chermside, Australia.
• ¹⁹ University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany.
• ²⁰ IKEM, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic.
• ²¹ The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
• ²² Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, GA.
• ²³ Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.
• ²⁴ Florida Hospital Transplant Institute, Orlando, Florida, USA.
• ²⁵ Providence Heart Institute.
• ²⁶ Columbia University, New York, USA.
• ²⁷ Massachasuetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
• ²⁸ Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA.
• ²⁹ Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
• ³⁰ UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
• ³¹ Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA & Division of Vaccines and Related Products Applications, Food and Drug Administration, USA.
• ³² Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
• ³³ University Heart and Vascular Center Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
• ³⁴ University of Texas Medical Branch- Galveston, TX, USA.
• ³⁵ Lutheran Health Physicians, Wayne, IN, USA.
• ³⁶ Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
• ³⁷ Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
• ³⁸ University of Arizona, Heart Institute, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
• ³⁹ University of Montreal, Canada.
• ⁴⁰ University of Chicago, Ill, USA.
• ⁴¹ University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
• ⁴² Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
• ⁴³ University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA.
• ⁴⁴ Medstar Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC, USA.
• ⁴⁵ Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
• ⁴⁶ Clinica Guayaquil, Guayaquil, Ecuador.
• ⁴⁷ Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.