1 Chair of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Cardiothoracic Center, Istituto Clinico Sant'Ambrogio, University of Milan, Milan, Italy.
2 Department of Cardiac Surgery, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria San Giovanni di Dio e Ruggi d'Aragona, Salerno, Italy.
3 Clinical Department of Internal Medicine and Specialistics, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria, and University Department of Advanced Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Naples, Italy.