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1 Department of Cardiology, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, 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 Division of Cardiac Surgery, The Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA.
4 Cardio-Thoracic Surgery Department, Heart and Vascular Centre, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
5 Department of Cardiac Surgery, Central Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of Interior, Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education, Warsaw, Poland.
6 Cardiothoracic Research Centre, Innovative Medical Forum, Bydgoszcz, Poland.