^○Shuhei Azuma, Masafumi Morita, Sho Mano (Cardiovascular Surgery of Kyoto Katsura Hospital)

^○Hiroshi Goto, Kazuma Date, Hiroshi Okada, Takashi Ando, Makoto Takeda (Yokohama Rosai Hospital, Yokohama, Kanagawa)

^○Shohei Yamada, Takura Taguchi, Satoshi Asada, Masahiro Ryugo, Shunsuke Saito, Osamu Monta, Yasushi Tsutsumi (Fukui Cardiovascular Center)

^○Yohkoh Matsumura, Michio Yoshitake, Masatoshi Yamashiro, Mitsutaka Nakao, Renn mawamura, Takashi Kunihara (The Jikei University school of medicine)

^○Kazuki Naito, Kai Machida, Toru Mikoshiba, Masaki Komatsu, Haruki Tanaka, Sou Ichimura, Takateru Yamamoto, Toshihito Gomibuchi, Noburo Oohashi, Megumi Huke, Yuko Wada, Tatsuichiro Seto, Kenji Okada (Shinshu University)