*Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

†Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

‡Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Surgery, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

§Department of Cardiac Surgery, Smidt Heart institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA

||Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

¶Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Houston, TX

#Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Cardiothoracic Surgery Section, University of Texas Health Science Center Houston, McGovern Medical School, Houston, TX

**Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO

††Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Texas Heart Institute, Houston, TX

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