1. Clinic for Cardiovascular Surgery, Department University Heart Center Freiburg Bad Krozingen, University Clinic Freiburg , Freiburg, Germany
2. Faculty of Medicine, Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg , Freiburg, Germany
3. Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Clinic Floridsdorf , Vienna, Austria
4. Medical Faculty, Sigmund Freud Private University , Vienna, Austria
5. Department of Cardiology, Dupuytren-2 University Hospital , Limoges, France
6. EpiMaCT, Inserm 1094 & IRD 270, Limoges University , Limoges, France
7. Department of Translational Medical Sciences, University of Campania “L. Vanvitelli” , Naples, Italy
8. Cardiac Surgery Unit, Monaldi Hospital , Naples, Italy
9. Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Duke University Medical Center , Durham, NC, USA
10. Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Pennsylvania , Philadelphia, PA, USA
11. University Clinic for Cardiac Surgery, Medical University Innsbruck , Innsbruck, Austria
12. Aortic Institute at Yale New Haven Hospital, Yale University School of Medicine , New Haven, CT, USA
13. Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Medicine Rostock, University of Rostock , Rostock, Germany
14. Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, The University of Texas at Austin/Dell Medical School , Austin, TX, USA
15. Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University Medical Centre Tübingen , Tübingen, Germany
16. Cardiac Surgery Unit, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna , Bologna, Italy
17. Department of Cardiac Surgery, Klinikum Oldenburg , Oldenburg, Germany
18. The Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg , Oldenburg, Germany
19. Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery and the Robert WM Frater Cardiovascular Research Centre, The University of the Free State , Bloemfontein, South Africa
20. Department of Cardiac Surgery and Cardiovascular Research, Dedinje Cardiovascular Institute , Belgrade, Serbia
21. Division of Cardiology at the Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals, Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust , London, UK
22. National Heart and Lung Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London , London, UK
23. Vascular Surgery Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Insubria School of Medicine , Varese, Italy
24. Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Virginia , Charlottesville, VA, USA
25. Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Hospital Clinic de Barcelona, University of Barcelona , Barcelona, Spain
26. Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Freiburg , Freiburg, Germany
27. Department of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospital Bern, Inselspital, University of Bern , Bern, Switzerland
28. Department of Cardiac Thoracic and Vascular Diseases, Fondazione IRCCS Cà Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico , Milan, Italy
29. Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, West German Heart and Vascular Center, University Medicine Essen , Essen, Germany