1. Department of Cardiac Surgery, Cardiovascular Institute, Dr Antoni Jurasz Memorial University Hospital, Bydgoszcz, Poland
2. Department for the Treatment and Study of Cardiothoracic Diseases and Cardiothoracic Transplantation, IRCCS-ISMETT (Istituto Mediterraneo per I Trapianti e Terapie ad alta specializzazione), Palermo, Italy
3. Clinical Department of Cardiac Surgery, Central Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of Interior, Warsaw, Poland
4. Pulaski University of Technology and Humanities, Radom, Poland
5. Cardiovascular Institute, Collegium Medicum in Bydgoszcz, University of Nicolaus Copernicus, Toruń, Poland
6. Department of Cardiology and Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Institute, Collegium Medicum, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Bydgoszcz, Poland
7. Inova Center for Thrombosis Research and Drug Development, Inova Heart and Vascular Institute, Fairfax, VA, USA