1. Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, German Heart Center Berlin, Germany; DZHK (German Centre for Cardiovascular Research), Partner Site Berlin, Germany
2. Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
3. Complexo Hospitalario Universitario A Coruña (CHUAC), Instituto de Investigación Biomédica de A Coruña (INIBIC), CIBERCV, UDC, La Coruña, Spain
4. Sorbonne Université, INSERM, Institute of Cardiometabolism and Nutrition, Paris, France
5. Service de médecine intensive-réanimation, Institut de Cardiologie, APHP, Hôpital Pitié–Salpêtrière, Paris, France
6. Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Jena University Hospital, Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, Jena, Germany
7. Department of Medical Microbiology, University College of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
8. Department of Anaesthesiology, German Heart Center Berlin, Berlin, Germany
9. Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
10. Department of Cardiothoracic, S. Orsola Hospital, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
11. Department of Medicine Karolinska Institute, Heart and Vascular Theme, Karolinska University Hospital, Solna, Sweden
12. Department of Cardiovascular Surgery Swiss Cardiovascular Center, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland
13. Clinic for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Herz- und Diabeteszentrum Nordrhein-Westfalen, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
14. Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine (IKEM), Prague, Czech Republic
15. Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Ege University, Izmir, Turkey
16. Advanced Heart Failure and Mechanical Circulatory Support Program, Cardiac Intensive Care, San Raffaele Hospital, Vita Salute University, Milan, Italy
17. Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, San Raffaele Hospital, Vita Salute University, Milan, Italy
18. Department of Congenital Pediatric Surgery, Zurich Children's Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
19. Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, United Kingdom
20. Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
21. Department of Cardiology, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark