1. Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Nantes Hospital University, Nantes, France
2. Department of Cardiac Surgery, Royal Stoke University Hospital, Stoke-on-Trent, UK
3. Department of Anesthesiology, Nantes Hospital University, Nantes, France
4. Thoracic Transplantation Unit, Nantes Hospital University, Nantes, France
5. Department of Cardiology and Vascular Diseases, Institut du thorax, UMR 1087, Clinical Research Unit-INSERM 1413, Teaching Hospital of Nantes, Nantes, France
6. Anatomopathology Department, Nantes University Hospital, Nantes, France
7. INSERM 1246, Methods in Patients-Centered Outcomes and Health Research - SPHERE, Nantes University, Nantes, France