Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Thoracic Vascular Surgery, Klinikum der Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Universitat Frankfurt Zentrum de Chirurgie, Frankfurt, Germany
Regional Cardiology Department, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, UK
Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus, Technical University Dresden Heart Center, Dresden, Germany
Department of Cardiology, St. Johannes Hospital, Dortmund, Germany
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Herzzentrum Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
GenesisCare, Adelaide, Australia
Department of Cardiology/Cardiac Surgery, Kerckhoff Klinik, Bad Nauheim, Germany
Department of General and Interventional Cardiology, University Heart Center Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Presented at the 31st Annual Meeting of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery, Vienna, Austria, 7–10 October 2017.
Corresponding author. Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Thoracic Vascular Surgery, Klinikum der Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Universitat Frankfurt Zentrum der Chirurgie, Theodor-Stern-Kai 7, 60590 Frankfurt, Germany. Tel: +49-69-63016141; fax: +49-69-63014391; e-mail: [email protected] (T. Walther).
Received November 14, 2017
Received in revised form January 25, 2018
Accepted February 02, 2018
