^○Masayoshi Inoue, Masato Minami, Soichiro Funaki, Yasushi Shintani, Tomohiro Kawamura, Toshiya Bessho, Meinoshin Okumura (Department of General Thoracic Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine)

^○Takahiro Oto, Masaomi Yamane, Seiichiro Sugimoto, Kentaroh Miyoshi, Norichika Iga, Masanori Okada, Shinichiro Miyoshi (Organ Transplant Center, Okayama University Hospital)

^○Fengshi Chen, Ryo Misyohi, Tetsu Yamada, Masaaki Sato, Akihiro Aoyama, Yusuke Muranishi, Akihiro Takahagi, Jitian Zhang, Toshi Menju, Toshihiko Sato, Makoto Sonobe, Mitsugu Omasa, Hiroshi Date (Thoracic Surgery, Kyoto University)