Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Cardiac Surgery and Transplantology, National Medical Institute of the Ministry of Interior and Administration, Warszawa, Poland
• ² Institute for Cardiovascular Science, CardioMedicum, Kraków, Poland
• ³ Heart Rhythm Management Center, Postgraduate Program in Cardiac Electrophysiology and Pacing, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel — Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
• ⁴ Cardiac Surgery Department, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel — Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
• ⁵ Department of Cardiac Rehabilitation, “Polonia,” Rymanów-Zdrój, Poland
• ⁶ Faculty of Physical Education and Security Sciences, University of Applied Sciences, Nowy Sącz, Poland
• ⁷ Department of Cardiac Surgery and Transplantology, National Medical Institute of the Ministry of Interior and Administration, Warszawa, Poland; Heart and Vascular Center, Maastricht University Medical Center and Cardiovascular Research Institute, Maastricht, the Netherlands; Department for the Treatment and Study of Cardiothoracic Diseases and Cardiothoracic Transplantation, IRCCS-ISMETT, Palermo, Italy; Thoracic Research Center, Collegium Medicum Nicolaus Copernicus University, Innovative Medical Forum, Bydgoszcz, Poland. kowalewskimariusz@gazeta.pl