| Participating centers | Steering Committee Member | Other Investigators |
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1 | Department of Surgery, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland | F. Biancari, Principal investigator | T. Juvonen |
E.M. Kinnunen | |||
2 | Department of Cardiac Surgery, Verona University Hospital, Verona, Italy | F. Onorati | G. Faggian |
3 | Division of Cardiac Surgery, Ospedali Riuniti di Trieste, Trieste, Italy | G. Gatti | A. Pappalardo |
L. Maschietto | |||
4 | Cardiac Surgery Unit, Ferrarotto Hospital, University of Catania, Catania, Italy | C. Mignosa | A.S. Rubino |
5 | Department of Cardiac Surgery, Klinikum NĂĽrnberg, Paracelsus Medical University, Nuremberg, Germany | G. Santarpino | T. Fischlein |
6 | Department of Cardiac Surgery, Leicester University Hospital, Leicester, UK | G. Mariscalco | G. Murphy |
N. Masala | |||
7 | Department of Thoracic and Cardio-Vascular Surgery, University Hospital Jean Minjoz, Besançon, France | A. Perrotti | S. Chocron |
8 | Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Anesthesiology, Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden | P. Svenarud | M. Dalén |
9 | Unit of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Cardiosciences, Hospital S. Camillo-Forlanini, Rome, Italy | F. Musumeci | R. Gherli |
10 | Division of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Pontchaillou University Hospital, Rennes, France | V.G. Ruggieri | H. Corbineau |
J.P. Verhoye | |||
11 | Department of Cardiac Surgery, St. Anna Hospital, Catanzaro, Italy | D. Maselli | C. Dominici |
S. Nardella | |||
12 | Division of Cardiac Surgery, Department of Cardiothoracic Sciences, Second University of Naples, Naples, Italy | M. De Feo | A. Della Corte |
C. Bancone | |||
13 | Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Parma, Parma, Italy | T. Gherli | F. Nicolini |