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¹Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio; Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart and Vascular Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio.

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