| Affiliation: | 1. Division of Colon and Rectal Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota;2. Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota;3. Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota;1. Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas;2. The Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, Texas;3. Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, The Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke''s Episcopal Hospital, Houston, Texas;4. Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, The University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota;5. Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas;6. Houston Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence, Houston, Texas;7. Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham and The Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Birmingham, Alabama;1. Department of Internal Medicine, Stanford University Hospital, Palo Alto, California;2. Division of Internal Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado;3. Colorado Cardiovascular Outcomes Research Consortium, Denver, Colorado;4. Thoratec Corporation, Pleasanton, California;5. Section of Advanced Heart Failure and Transplantation, Division of Cardiology, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado;6. St. Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute/University of Missouri–Kansas City, MKC, Kansas City, Missouri;1. ICON Clinical Research, Biostatistics and Programming, San Francisco, California;2. Pulmonary Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.;1. Department of Medicine, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon;2. Knight Cardiovascular Institute, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon |
