About the Authors

Marco Ranucci

cardioanestesia@virgilio.it

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic - Vascular Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri, IRCCS Istituto Scientifico di Montescano, Montescano, Italy

Andrea Ballotta

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic - Vascular Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri, IRCCS Istituto Scientifico di Montescano, Montescano, Italy

Maria Teresa La Rovere

Affiliation Department of Cardiology, Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri, IRCCS Istituto Scientifico di Montescano, Montescano, Italy

Serenella Castelvecchio

Affiliation Department of Cardiothoracic - Vascular Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Fondazione Salvatore Maugeri, IRCCS Istituto Scientifico di Montescano, Montescano, Italy

for the Surgical and Clinical Outcome Research (SCORE) Group

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MR MTLR SC AB. Analyzed the data: MR SC AB. Wrote the paper: MR MTLR.