Lars Svensson, MD, PhD1
1 Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, 2Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland. Ohio.
Funding: There was no financial support for this study.
Disclosures: Drs. Akhrass, Bakaeen, Cameron, Kapadia and Svensson declare no conflicts of interest. Dr. Bishop is on speaker bureau for Janssen. Dr. Gillinov is consultant to Edwards Lifesciences, Medtronic, Abbott, CryoLife, AtriCure, Johnson and Johnson, ClearFlow and has the right to equity from ClearFlow.
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Address for correspondence:
Rami Akhrass, MD
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute
9500 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, Ohio 44195
akhrasr@ccf.org