Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité, Berlin, Germany; Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany; DZHK (German Center for Cardiovascular Research), Partner Site Berlin, Berlin, Germany. Electronic address: evgenij.potapov@dhzc-charite.de.
• ² Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA. Electronic address: gwhitman@jhmi.edu.
• ³ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MI, USA. Electronic address: johnx008@umn.edu.
• ⁴ Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Deutsches Herzzentrum der Charité, Berlin, Germany; Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany; DZHK (German Center for Cardiovascular Research), Partner Site Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
• ⁵ Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine (IKEM), Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Prague, Czech Republic.
• ⁶ Division of Cardiac Surgery, Harrington Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland, OH, USA; Department of Surgery, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
• ⁷ Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• ⁸ Department of Anesthesiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, the Netherlands.
• ⁹ Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
• ¹⁰ University of Turin, Department of Surgical Sciences, City of Health and Science University Hospital, Turin, Italy.
• ¹¹ Cardiothoracic Surgery Department, Maastricht University Medical Center (MUMC), Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht (CARIM), Maastricht, the Netherlands.
• ¹² Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
• ¹³ Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
• ¹⁴ Department of Cardiac Surgery, Medical University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
• ¹⁵ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MI, USA.
• ¹⁶ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson, Tucson, AZ, USA.
• ¹⁷ Northern Department of Cardiac Surgery, Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, Newark, NJ, USA.
• ¹⁸ Division of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA.
• ¹⁹ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
• ²⁰ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
• ²¹ Department of Cardiac and Thoracic Aortic Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
• ²² Department of Cardiac Surgery and Cardiovascular Research, Dedinje Cardiovascular Institute, Belgrade, Serbia; Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
• ²³ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA.
• ²⁴ Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA.
• ²⁵ Cardiac Surgery Department, Harrington Heart and Vascular Institute, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland, OH, USA.
• ²⁶ Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
• ²⁷ Division of Cardiac Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine and Northwestern Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA.
• ²⁸ Department of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
• ²⁹ Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA, USA.
• ³⁰ Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
• ³¹ Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, OH, USA.
• ³² Department of Cardiac Surgery, Heart Center Niederrhein, Helios Hospital Krefeld, Krefeld, Germany.
• ³³ Cardiovascular Surgery Department, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
• ³⁴ Department of Emergency Medicine, Medical Center, University of Freiburg, Faculty of Medicine, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
• ³⁵ Department of Cardiac Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA.