1 Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Birmingham VA Health Care System, Birmingham, AL; Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Disease, UAB Department of Surgery, Birmingham, AL. Electronic address: ldellitalia@uabmc.edu.
2 Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, UAB University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Cardiovascular Institute, Birmingham, AL.
3 Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Birmingham VA Health Care System, Birmingham, AL; Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Disease, UAB Department of Surgery, Birmingham, AL.
4 Department of Pathology and Center for Free Radical Biology, UAB, Birmingham, AL.