1. University Department of Cardiac Surgery Leipzig Heart Center Leipzig Germany
2. Department of Veterans Affairs Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center Cleveland OH USA
3. Klinikum Karlsburg, Klinik für Herz‐, Thorax‐ und Gefäßchirurgie Karlsburg Germany
4. Bremen Institute for Heart and Circulation Research (BIHKF) Affiliated Institute of Lübeck University Bremen Germany
5. Department of Cardiac Surgery University Hospital Heidelberg Heidelberg Germany
6. Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery Hannover Medical School Hannover Germany
7. Department of Cardiac Surgery Ludwig Maximillian University Munich Munich Germany
8. German Center for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK) Partner Site Munich Heart Alliance Munich Germany
9. Department for Cardiothoracic Surgery Heart Center at University of Cologne Cologne Germany
10. Department of Cardiothoracic, Transplant and Vascular Surgery Hannover Medical School Hannover Germany
11. Department of Cardiology University Hospital Heidelberg Heidelberg Germany
12. Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery Otto‐von‐Guericke University Magdeburg Magdeburg Germany
13. Department of Cardiology Heart Center Leipzig at University of Leipzig Leipzig Germany
14. Klinikum Links der Weser – Klinik für Herzchirurgie Bremen Germany
15. Department of Anesthesiology Heart Center Leipzig at University of Leipzig Leipzig Germany
16. Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, German Heart Center Munich Technische Universität München Munich Germany
17. Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, German Heart Center Munich, Technische Universität München Insure (Institute of Translational Cardiac Surgery) Munich Germany
18. Department for Cardiovascular Surgery University Heart and Vascular Center Hamburg Hamburg Germany
19. Herz‐Kreislauf‐Zentrum, Klinikum Hersfeld‐Rotenburg Rontenburg an der Fulda Germany
20. Department of Internal Medicine I Jena University Hospital – Friedrich Schiller University of Jena Jena Germany
21. Department of Cardiology, Cardiology I University Medical Center Mainz of the Johannes Gutenberg‐University Mainz Mainz Germany
22. Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Sydney NSW Australia
23. Institute of Academic Surgery, RPAH Sydney NSW Australia
24. The Baird Institute of Applied Heart and Lung Surgical Research Sydney NSW Australia
25. Sydney Medical School University of Sydney Sydney NSW Australia
26. Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery Jena University Hospital – Friedrich Schiller University of Jena Jena Germany