^○Naoki Tadokoro, Satsuki Fukushima, Yusuke Shimahara, Takuma Yamasaki, Kizuku Yamashita, Yorihiko Mastumoto, Naonori Kawamoto, Teppei Toya, Takashi Kakuta, Takumi Kawase, Junjiro Kobayashi, Tomoyuki Fujita (National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center)

^○Masaro Nakae, Hiroki Hata, Shigeru Miyagawa, Yasushi Yoshikawa, Satoshi Kainuma, Daisuke Yoshioka, Takuji Kawamura, Ai Kawamura, Shohei Yoshida, Takayoshi Ueno, Toru Kuratani, Koichi Toda, Yoshiki Sawa (Department of Cardiovascular surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine)

^○Kazuto Maruta, Atsushi Aoki, Tadashi Omoto, Tomoaki Masuda (Showa University Cardiovascular Surgery)

^○Eigo Ikushima, Toru Yasutsune, Hidehiko Nakashima, Tomoya Takigawa, Yosuke Nishimura (University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Japan)

^○Akie Shimada, Taira Yamamoto, Kenji Kuwaki, Kan Kajimoto, Shizuyuki Dohi, Satoshi Matsushita, Atsumi Ooishi, Chion Lee, Yuki Kamikawa, Terumasa Morita, Hiroaki Hata, Atsushi Amano (Juntendo University)