^○Katsuaki Meshii, Masayuki Sugimoto, Syuta Ikeda, Youhei Kawai, Takayuki Fujii, Naohiro Akita, Takuya Tsuruoka, Masashi Sakakibara, Noriko Takahashi, Kiyoaki Niimi, Akio Kodama, HIroshi Banno, Kimihiro Komori (NAGOYA University)

^○Ippei Takazawa, Tutomu Saito, Hirotaka Sato, Arata Muraoka, Kei Aizawa, Kouzi Kawahito (Jichi Medical University)

^○Masahiro Hirano, Hiroshi Tsuneyoshi, Chikara Ueki, Ken Yamanaka, Hirofumi Sato (Shizuoka general hospital, Department of cardiovascular surgery)

^○Yasuko Gotake, Jun Mou, Tatsuya Kawamoto, Koki Youkawa, Hidekazu Nakai, Katsuhiro Yamanaka, Takeshi Inoue, Hiroshi Tanaka (Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan)

^○Satoshi Yuhara, Masao Yamada, Taiyo Kuroda, Horoki Hasegawa, Jun Yokote, Yukifusa Yokoyama (Ogaki municipal hospital)