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Corresponding Author: Michael E. Halkos, MD, MSc, FACC, FACS, Associate Professor of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, 550 Peachtree Street, NE, 6th floor MOT, Atlanta, GA 30308, mhalkos@emory.edu, (o) 404-686-6739, (f) 404-686-4959.
Michael E. Halkos, MD – Maquet Cardiovascular – consultant.
None of the other authors have any relevant disclosures or conflicts of interest.
Funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health; NIH Award Number 5K23HL105892-05.
Supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences of the National Institutes of Health Award Number UL1TR000454.
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