About the Authors

Omar A. V. Mejia

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – original draft

omar.mejia@incor.usp.br

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart Institute–University of São Paulo Medical Center, São Paulo, Brazil

Manuel J. Antunes

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University Hospital and Faculty of Medicine, Coimbra, Portugal

Maxim Goncharov

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart Institute–University of São Paulo Medical Center, São Paulo, Brazil

Luís R. P. Dallan

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart Institute–University of São Paulo Medical Center, São Paulo, Brazil

Elinthon Veronese

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart Institute–University of São Paulo Medical Center, São Paulo, Brazil

Gisele A. Lapenna

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart Institute–University of São Paulo Medical Center, São Paulo, Brazil

Luiz A. F. Lisboa

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart Institute–University of São Paulo Medical Center, São Paulo, Brazil

Luís A. O. Dallan

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart Institute–University of São Paulo Medical Center, São Paulo, Brazil

Carlos M. A. Brandão

Roles Conceptualization, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart Institute–University of São Paulo Medical Center, São Paulo, Brazil

Jorge Zubelli

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation

Affiliation National Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

Flávio Tarasoutchi

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of the Clinical Unit of Heart Valve Diseases, Heart Institute–University of São Paulo Medical Center, São Paulo, Brazil

Pablo M. A. Pomerantzeff

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart Institute–University of São Paulo Medical Center, São Paulo, Brazil

Fabio B. Jatene

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart Institute–University of São Paulo Medical Center, São Paulo, Brazil

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.