Georgios Afxonidis a, 1
Georgios Afxonidis and Christos Tsagkaris contributed equally to this manuscript and share first co-authorship.
, Christos Tsagkaris b, 1
Georgios Afxonidis and Christos Tsagkaris contributed equally to this manuscript and share first co-authorship.
, Andreas S. Papazoglou c, ⁎
, Dimitrios V. Moysidis d, Georgios Tagarakis d, 2
Georgios T Karapanagiotidis as a co-author.
, Christoforos Foroulis d, Kyriakos Anastasiadis d
a Cardiothoracic Surgery Department, General University Hospital of Larissa, University of Thessaly, Greece
b School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece
c Athens Naval Hospital, Athens, Greece
d Cardiothoracic Surgery Department, AHEPA University hospital, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece