About the Authors

Jaimin R. Trivedi

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Jaimin.trivedi@louisville.edu

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY, United States of America

Siddharth V. Pahwa

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY, United States of America

Katherine R. Whitehouse

Roles Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY, United States of America

Bradley M. Ceremuga

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY, United States of America

Mark S. Slaughter

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Louisville, KY, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.