1. Department of Cardiac Surgery Centro Cardiologico Monzino Milan Italy
2. Department of Cardiac Surgery S. Croce Hospital Cuneo Italy
3. Department of Cardiac Surgery Humanitas Clinical and Research Center, Rozzano Milano Italy
4. Department of Cardiac Surgery IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, San Donato Milanese Milan Italy
5. Department of Cardiac, Thoracic, and Vascular, Cardiac Surgery Unit University of Pisa Pisa Italy
6. Dipartimento di Scienze Cliniche e Comunità DISCCO‐ UNIMI Milan Italy
7. Departments of Cardiac Surgery, S. Orsola‐Malpighi Hospital University of Bologna Bologna Italy
8. Department of Cardiac Surgery Azienda ULSS2 Ca' Foncello Hospital Treviso Italy
9. Department of Cardiac Surgery, AULSS 8 Berica San Bortolo Hospital Vicenza Italy
10. Department of Cardiac Surgery Poliambulanza Foundation Hospital Brescia Italy
11. Departments of Cardiac Surgery Catholic University of The Sacred Heart Brescia Italy
12. Department of Cardiothoracic Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Friuli Centrale Udine Italy
13. Department of Cardiac Surgery Ospedale San Camillo Roma Italy
14. Department of Cardiac Surgery University of Padua Padua Italy
15. Department of Cardiac Surgery, IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital Vita‐Salute" San Raffaele University Milan Italy
16. Division of Cardiac Surgery, Santa Maria Hospital GVM Care & Research Bari Italy
17. Department of Medical and Surgical Science University of Foggia Foggia Italy
18. Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of DISC, Ospedale Policlinico San Martino University of Genoa Genoa Italy
19. UOC Cardiochirurgia Ospedale Vito Fazzi Lecce Italy
20. Department of Cardiac Surgery Azienda Ospedaliera Papardo Messina Italy
21. Division of Cardiology, AOU Città della Salute e della Scienza University of Turin Turin Italy
22. Department of Cardiac Surgery Giuseppe Mazzini Hospital Teramo Italy
23. Cardiac Surgery Unit Humanitas Gavazzeni Bergamo Italy
24. Department of Translational Medical Sciences, AORN dei Colli/Monaldi Hospital University of Campania "L. Vanvitelli" Naples Italy
25. Department of Cardiac Surgery Azienda Ospedaliera Nazionale SS. Antonio e Biagio e Cesare Arrigo Alessandria Italy
26. Cardio‐Thoracic Surgery Unit, Heart and Vascular Centre, Maastricht University Medical Centre (MUMC), Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht (CARIM) Maastricht Netherlands
27. Department of Universitary Cardiac Surgery and Translational Research, IRCCS Policlinico S. Donato University of Milan Milan Italy
28. Deparment of Biomedical Sciences for Health Università di Milano Milan Italy