^○Toshi Maeda, Keiichi Fujiwara, Otohime Kato, Kentaro Watanabe, Go Ueno, Kosuke Yoshizawa, Nobuhisa Ohno (Hyogo Prefectural Amagasaki General Medical Center)

^○Koji Fukae, Chihiro Miyagi (Kumamoto City Hospital, Kumamoto, Japan)

^○Noriko Fujimoto, Toshihide Nakano, Shinichiro Oda, Kunihiko Joo, Masami Goda, Takuya Okamoto, Kensaku Matsuda, Hideaki Kado (Fukuoka Children's Hospital)

^○Naohiro Horio, Yasuhiro Kotani, Ryuta Tai, Naoya Sakota, Tatsunori Tuji, Yasuyuki Kobayashi, Sachiko Kawada, Genya Muraoka, Kouki Eto, Susumu Ozawa, Yousuke Kuroko, Takanori Suezawa, Sadahiko Arai, Shingo Kasahara (OKAYAMA University)

^○Yoshimasa Uno, Kiyozo Morita, Gen Shinohara, Hiroo Kinami, Takasi Kunihara (Department of Cardiac Surgery, The Jikei University School of Medicine)