aInterdisciplinary Center for Health Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna

bCardiology Division, Fondazione Toscana Gabriele Monasterio, Pisa, Italy

cInstitut del Cor, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Barcelona, Spain

dHistopathology Department, University Hospital of Pisa, Italy

eJesús Usón Minimally Invasive Surgery Centre, Cáceres

fCIBERCV, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid

gDepartment of Medicine, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona

hCIBERCV, Carlos III Institute of Health, Madrid, Spain

Correspondence to Alberto Aimo, MD, PhD, FESC, FHFA, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna and Fondazione Toscana Gabriele Monasterio, Piazza Martiri della Libertà 33, 56127 Pisa, Italy Tel: +39 503153521/3477084391; fax: +39 503152109; e-mail: [email protected], [email protected]

Received 2 June, 2023

Revised 18 July, 2023

Accepted 9 August, 2023