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Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Intensive Care Medicine, University of Athens Medical School, Evaggelismos General Hospital, 45-47 Ipsilandou Street, GR-10676, Athens, Greece. sdmentzelopoulos@yahoo.com.
• ² Service d'anesthésie et des réanimations chirurgicales, Réanimation chirurgicale cardio-vasculaire, DHU A-TVB, Hôpitaux Universitaires Henri Mondor, Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris, Créteil, France.
• ³ Université Paris Est Créteil, Faculté de Médecine, Créteil, France.
• ⁴ INSERM U955, équipe 3 «Stratégies pharmacologiques et thérapeutiques expérimentales des insuffisances cardiaques et coronaires», Créteil, France.
• ⁵ School of Medicine, European University Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus.
• ⁶ Department of Intensive Care Medicine, University of Athens Medical School, Evaggelismos General Hospital, 45-47 Ipsilandou Street, GR-10676, Athens, Greece.