1. Department of Cardiovascular, Respiratory, Nephrological, Anesthesiological, and Geriatric Sciences, “Umberto I” Hospital, “La Sapienza” University of Rome, Rome, Italy
2. Department of Medical Surgical Sciences and Biotechnology, “La Sapienza” University of Rome, Rome, Italy
3. Mediterranea Cardiocentro, Naples, Italy
4. Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and General Pathology, University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Naples, Italy
5. Center for Advanced Biomaterials for Health Care@CRIB, Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Naples, Italy
6. Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Biomaterials (CRIB) and Dipartimento di Ingegneria Chimica, dei Materiali e della Produzione Industriale (DICMAPI), Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”, Naples, Italy
7. Department of Cardiac Surgery, Humanitas University, Milan, Italy
8. IRCCS NEUROMED, Pozzilli, IS, Italy