Affiliations

• ¹ Centro Cardiovascular Universitario and Instituto Nacional de Cirugia Cardiaca, Hospital de Clinicas, Universidad de la Republica, Montevideo, Uruguay.
• ² Department of Surgery, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.
• ³ Department of Cardiac Surgery, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
• ⁴ Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
• ⁵ Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery, Sino-Swiss Heart-Lung Transplantation Institute, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
• ⁶ Coronary Center, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Miller Family Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.
• ⁷ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, New York.
• ⁸ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.
• ⁹ Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, WVU Heart and Vascular Institute, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia.
• ¹⁰ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas.
• ¹¹ Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• ¹² Department of Cardiac Surgery, Piedmont Heart Institute, Atlanta, Georgia.
• ¹³ Instituto de Circurgia Cardiovascular, Faculdade de Medicina, Centro Universitário Fundação Assis Gurgacz, Cascavel, Paraná, Brazil.
• ¹⁴ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.
• ¹⁵ Department of Cardiovascular, Pirajussara Hospital, Hospital São Paulo, Escola Paulista de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP), São Paulo, Brazil.
• ¹⁶ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas.
• ¹⁷ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
• ¹⁸ Department of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Hospital de Santa Cruz, Carnaxide, Portugal.
• ¹⁹ Department of Cardiac Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Smidt Heart Institute, Los Angeles, California.
• ²⁰ Coronary Center, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Miller Family Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio. Electronic address: bakaeef@ccf.org.