Success in long-term outcome after cardiac surgery: Rise from an uncomplicated immediate postoperative course

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Maastricht-CARIM, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
• ² Department of Cardiology, Le Scotte Hospital, University of Siena, Siena, Italy.
• ³ Department of Cardiac Surgery, Toronto, ON, Canada.
• ⁴ Department of Cardiac Surgery, St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
• ⁵ Cardiac Surgery Unit, Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, University of Firenze, Firenze, Italy.