Editor-in-Chief: Tomas A. Salerno, MD Miami, FL USA Deputy Editor: Mario Gaudino, MD Associate Editors: a) Statistics: Shari Messinger Cayetano, M.E., Ph.D. b) Congenital Heart Surgery: Marco Ricci, MD; Randy Stevens, MD c) Adult Cardiac Surgery: Fabio Jatene, MD; Vinod H. Thourani, MD; Serdar Gunaydin, MD; Roberto Lorusso, MD; Bobby Yanagawa, MD; Marco Moscarelli, MD; Aschraf El-Essawi, MD; Patrick Weerwind, MD; John S. Ikonomidis, MD; Antonio M Calafiore, MD d) Robotic/Minimally Invasive: Saqib Masroor, MD e) Anesthesiology: Oscar Aljure, MD; Lisa Rong, MD f) Transplantation/Mechanical Assist Device/ECMO: Mathias Loebe, MD; Ali Ghodsizad, MD g) Cardiology: Cesar Mendoza, MD Editorial Office: Hillary Bixby Journal of Cardiac Surgery Editorial Office Wiley-Blackwell 350 Main Street Malden, MA 02148 USA Phone: 617-959-7586 Fax: 781-338-8489 Email: jcsadmin@wiley.com Editorial Board: Niv Ad, Falls Church, VA, USA Ottavio Alfieri, Milan, Italy Erle Austin, Louisville, KY, USA Carl Backer, Chicago, IL, USA Gianni Angelini MD, Italy Sigrid Sandner MD, Vianna, Austria Jessica Forcillo MD, Montreal, Canada Reddy Chamaranda MD, New York, USA Hannah Copeland MD, Mississipi, USA Ali Ghodsizad MD, Miami, USA Michael Vallely MD, Australia Umberto Benedetto MD, England Imtiaz Ali MD, Canada Federico Benetti MD, Argentina Eliot Rosenkranz MD, Miami, USA Torsten, Doenst, Germany Randy Stevens, USA Howard Cabral, Boston, MA, USA Duke Cameron, Boston, MA, USA William Cohn, Houston, TX, USA John Conte, Hershey, PA, USA Richard Engelman, Springfield, MA, USA Stephen Fremes, Toronto, Canada Mario Fl Gaudino, New York, NY, USA Leonard N. Girardi, New York, NY, USA Don Glower, Raleigh-Durham, NC, USA Daniel Goldstein, New York, NY, USA Kevin Greason, Rochester, MN, USA Eugene Grossi, New York, NY, USA Valluvan Jeevanandam, Chicago, IL, USA Richard Jonas, Washington, DC, USA Kirk Kanter, Atlanta, GA, USA Nicholas Kouchoukos, St. Louis, MO, USA Irving Kron, Charlottesville, VA, USA Paul Kurlansky, New York, USA John J. Lamberti, San Diego, CA, USA Patrick McCarthy, Chicago, IL, USA David McGiffin, Melbourne, Australia Philippe Menasche, Paris, France Robert E. Michler, New York, NY, USA Ralph Mosca, New York, NY, USA Pierre Page, Montreal, Canada Soon Park, Cleveland, OH, USA Michael Pasque, St. Louis, MO, USA Vivek Rao, Toronto, Canada Francis Robicsek, Charlotte, NC, USA Evelio Rodriguez, Nashville, TN, USA Joe Sabik, Cleveland, OH, USA Hartzell V. Schaff, Rochester, MN, USA Frank Shellke, Providence, RI, USA Richard Shemin, Los Angeles, CA, USA Mark Slaughter, Louisville, KY, USA Vaughn Starnes, Los Angeles, CA, USA Thoref Sundt, Boston, MA, USA Lars Svensson, Cleveland, OH, USA Marko Turina, Zurich, Switzerland James Tweddell, Cincinatti, OH, USA Gus J. Vlahakes, Boston, MA, USA Grayson Wheatley, Nashville, Tenn, USA Joseph Woo, Palo Alto, CA, USA Marc Gillinov, MD, Ohio, USA Ki-Bong Kim, PhD, Seoul, Korea Marco Picichè, MD. Vicenza, Italy Yoshiki Sawa, PhD, Osaka, Japan Feng Wan, MD, Shanghai, China Paolo Denti, Milan, Italy Omar M. Lattouf, Atlanta, Georgia, USA Pradeep Narayan, Kolkata, India Faisal G. Bakaeen, Cleveland, OH, USA Ashvamv Topaz, North Carolina, USA Vicente Orozco-Sevilla, Houston, Texas, USA Founding Editor: Lawrence H. Cohn, MD (1986-1996) Past Editors:
Robert B. Karp, MD (1997-2000) Bernard S. Goldman, MD (2001-2008) Harold L. Lazar, MD (2009-2018)
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