^○Shizuya Shintomi, Hideyuki Uesugi, Takashi Oshitomi, Ichiro Ideta, Kentaro Takaji, Yukihiro Katayama, Toshiaki Sassa, Hidetaka Murata, Tomonori Koga (Saiseikai Kumamoto Hospital, Kumamoto, Japan)

^○Hideki Tsubota, Genichi Sakaguchi, Yoshio Arai, Shinichi tsumaru, Hiroo Teranishi, Ryouko Arakaki, Jun Iida, Keisuke Hakamada, Yuuki Kuroda, Akira Marui (kokura Memorial Hospital)

^○Yuki Okamoto, Kazuo Yamamoto, Fuyuki Asami, Mitsuhiro Kimura, Eiichi Ooba, Yuki Takesue, Maiko Umezawa, Shinpei Yoshii (Tachikawa Medical Center, Nagaoka, Japan)

^○Satoshi Ohki, Tamiyuki Obayashi, Kiyomitsu Yasuhara, Shyuichi Okonogi, Hanako Hirai, Takao Miki, Tadashi Umeno (Isesaki Municipal Hospital, Department of cardiovascular surgery, Isesaki, Japan)

^○Tsubasa Yazawa, Yuki Goto, Ryota Yamamoto, Sho Akita, Motoshi Kozakai, Keisuke Tanaka, Wataru Kato, Kazuyoshi Tajima (Nagoya Daini Red Cross Hospital)

^○Takeshi Inoue¹, Tatsuya Kawamoto¹, Jyun Mo¹, koki Yokawa¹, Yasuko Gotake¹, Soichiro Henmi¹, Hidekazu Nakai¹, Katsuhiro Yamanaka¹, Hiroshi Tanaka¹, Yutaka Okita² (1.Kobe University, 2.Takatsuki Hospital)

^○Takehiko Matsuo, Tatsuhiko Komiya, Takeshi Shimamoto, Michihito Nonaka, Junya Kitaura, Yoshimasa Furuichi, Taiyou Jinno, Taku Shirakami, Atsushi Sugaya, Masaya Hirayama, Kouji Miura, Atsuyuki Yano (Kurashiki Central Hospitl, Kurashiki, Japan)