Mehmet Kanbay a Mahmut Ilker Yilmaz a Alper Sonmez b Faruk Turgut a
Mutlu Saglam c Erdinc Cakir d Mujdat Yenicesu a Adrian Covic e Diana Jalal f
Richard J. Johnson

Evridiki K. Vouloumanou
Eleni Plessa
Drosos E. Karageorgopoulos
Elpis Mantadakis
Matthew E. Falagas

John H. Boyd, MD, FRCP(C); Jason Forbes, MD; Taka-aki Nakada, MD, PhD; Keith R. Walley, MD, FRCP(C);
James A. Russell, MD, FRCP(C)

Howard S. Weintraub, MD, FACC,* Henry Tran, MD,* and Arthur Schwartzbard, MD, FACC*†

Tara Lagu, MD, MPH; Michael B. Rothberg, MD, MPH; Brian H. Nathanson, PhD;
Penelope S. Pekow, PhD; Jay S. Steingrub, MD; Peter K. Lindenauer, MD, MSc

Letter to the Editor

Kazuhiro Tatsumi, MDa, Hidekazu Tanaka, MD, PhDa,*, Kouhei Yamawaki, MDa, Keiko Ryo, MDa,
Alaa Mabrouk Salem Omar, MDa, Yuko Fukuda, MDa, Kazuko Norisada, MD, PhDa,
Kensuke Matsumoto, MDa, Tetsuari Onishi, MD, PhDa, John Gorcsan III, MDb,
Akihiro Yoshida, MD, PhDa, Hiroya Kawai, MD, PhDa, and Ken-ichi Hirata, MD, PhDa

George Wells PhD, Ratika Parkash MD MSc, Jeffrey S. Healey MD MSc, Mario Talajic MD,
J. Malcolm Arnold MD, Shannon Sullivan MSc, Joan Peterson BA, Elizabeth Yetisir MSc,
Patricia Theoret-Patrick BScRN, Marilynn Luce BScRN, Anthony S.L. Tang MD

Zeenat Safdar

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