Vincenzo Tarzia, Giacomo Bortolussi, Edward Buratto, Carla Paolini, Carlo Dal Lin, Giulio Rizzoli, Tomaso Bottio, Gino Gerosa
Vincenzo Tarzia, Giacomo Bortolussi, Edward Buratto, Giulio Rizzoli, Tomaso Bottio, Gino Gerosa, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padua Medical School, 35128 Padua, Italy
Carla Paolini, Carlo Dal Lin, Division of Cardiology, Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padua Medical School, 35128 Padua, Italy
Author contributions: Tarzia V, Bortolussi G, Buratto E, Paolini C, Dal Lin C, Rizzoli G, Bottio T and Gerosa G contributed to study conception and design; Tarzia V, Bortolussi G, Buratto E, Paolini C, Dal Lin C and Rizzoli G contributed to data acquisition, data analysis and interpretation, and writing of article; Tarzia V, Bortolussi G, Buratto E, Paolini C, Dal Lin C, Rizzoli G, Bottio T and Gerosa G contributed to editing, reviewing and final approval of article.
Institutional review board statement: The study was reviewed and approved by the Padua University Institutional Review Board.
Informed consent statement: All study participants, or their legal guardian, provided informed written consent prior to study enrollment.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors have no conflict of interest to declare.
Data sharing statement: No additional data are available.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Vincenzo Tarzia, MD, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padua Medical School, Via Giustiniani, 2, 35128 Padova, Italy. v.tarzia@gmail.com
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Received: April 3, 2015
Peer-review started: April 3, 2015
First decision: April 28, 2015
Revised: July 30, 2015
Accepted: August 20, 2015
Article in press: August 21, 2015
Published online: September 26, 2015
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