Rennison, Julie H. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6250-1930
Li, Ling
Lin, Cheryl R.
Lovano, Beth S.
Castel, Laurie
Wass, Sojin Youn http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9354-0011
Cantlay, Catherine C.
McHale, Meghan
Gillinov, A. Marc
Mehra, Reena http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6222-2675
Willard, Belinda B. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6884-6369
Smith, Jonathan D. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0415-386X
Chung, Mina K. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7835-6045
Barnard, John http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2403-8268
Van Wagoner, David R. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8250-9828
Funding for this research was provided by:
American Heart Association (18SFRN34110067, 18SFRN34170442)
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R01 HL111314, R01 HL111314, R01 HL111314, R01 HL111314)
Article History
Received: 13 November 2020
Revised: 26 December 2020
Accepted: 4 January 2021
First Online: 16 January 2021
Compliance with ethical standards
:
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All surgical patients provided informed consent for research use of discarded atrial tissues. Prior to 2008, verbal consent was obtained and documented in the patient medical records in a process approved by the Cleveland Clinic Institutional Review Board (IRB, project 18-1501).