1. Città di Lecce Hospital, GVM Care & Research, Lecce, Italy
2. Cardiovascular Center, Paracelsus Medical University, Nuremberg, Germany
3. Cardiac Surgery Unit, Ospedali Riuniti, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy
4. Hospital Universitaire de Berne, Bern, Switzerland
5. Southlake Regional Health Centre, ON, Canada
6. University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
7. Cardiac Surgery Department, Sant’Orsola Malpighi Hospital, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
8. Department of Cardiac Surgery, Dresden Heart Center, Dresden University Hospital, Dresden, Germany
9. Istituto Clinico Sant’Ambrogio, Clinical & Research Hospitals IRCCS Gruppo San Donato, Milan, Italy
10. Poliambulanza Foundation Hospital, Brescia, Italy
11. Gasthuisberg, Cardiale Heelkunde, Leuven, Belgium
12. Department for the Treatment and Study of Cardiothoracic Diseases and Cardiothoracic Transplantation IRCCS-ISMETT, Palermo, Italy
13. GVM Care & Research, Cotignola, Italy
14. Cardiovascular Department, Clinica San Gaudenzio, Novara, Italy
15. Henri Mondor Hospital, University of Paris, Paris, France
16. Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
17. Pasquinucci Heart Hospital, Massa, Italy
18. Department of Cardiac Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
19. The Collaborative Research (CORE) Group
20. Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
21. Cardiac Surgery Unit, Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Ospedali Riuniti, Polytechnic University of Marche, Ancona, Italy