1 Department of Clinical, Anesthesiological and Cardiovascular Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, 00161 Rome, Italy. Electronic address: roberto.badagliacca@uniroma1.it.
2 Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA.
3 Department of Clinical, Anesthesiological and Cardiovascular Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, 00161 Rome, Italy.
4 Department of Internal Medicine II, University Hospital Giessen and Marburg, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Klinikstrasse 33, 35392 Giessen, Germany.
5 Department of Pathophysiology, Faculty of Medicine, Free University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium.