Amir Kazory and Edward A. Ross

Mariell Jessup, MD, FACC,†
Maria Rosa Costanzo, MD, FACC‡
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Lombard, Illinois

David S. Frankel, MD,* Ramachandran S. Vasan, MD,†‡ Ralph B. D’Agostino, SR, PHD,†
Emelia J. Benjamin, MD, SCM,†‡§ Daniel Levy, MD,†
Thomas J. Wang, MD,†¶
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W.H. Wilson Tang, MD,a and Wilson Tong, MScb Cleveland and Cincinnati, OH

To the Editor:

Khalil Fattouch, MD, PhD, Francesco Guccione, MD, Pietro Dioguardi, MD, Roberta Sampognaro, MD, Egle Corrado, MD,
Marco Caruso, MD, and Giovanni Ruvolo, MD

Matthew Liava’a, MBCHB, Sanjay Theodore, MCh,
Timothy Wagner, FRACS, and James Tatoulis, FRACS

Changqing Gao, MD, Ming Yang, MD, Yang Wu, MD, Gang Wang, MD,
Cangsong Xiao, MD, Hongbin Liu, MD, and Caiyi Lu, MD

Thomas Puehler, MD, Assad Haneya, Alois Philipp, Karsten Wiebe, MD,
Andreas Keyser, MD, Leopold Rupprecht, MD, Stephan Hirt, MD,
Reinhard Kobuch, MD, Claudius Diez, MD, Michael Hilker, MD, and
Christof Schmid, MD

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