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Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2015; 63(05): 444
DOI: 10.1055/s-0035-1556566
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Erratum to: Cardiac Surgery in Germany during 2014: A Report on Behalf of the German Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery [Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2015; 63(04): 258–269]

Andreas Beckmann
1   German Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Langenbeck-Virchow-Haus, Berlin, Germany
,
Anne-Kathrin Funkat
2   Clinic for Cardiac Surgery, Heart Center Leipzig, University of Leipzig, Germany
,
Jana Lewandowski
1   German Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Langenbeck-Virchow-Haus, Berlin, Germany
,
Michael Frie
3   FOM Hochschule fuer Oekonomie & Management, Essen, Germany
,
Markus Ernst
4   Clinic for Cardiac and Vascular Surgery, University Kiel, Kiel, Germany
,
Khosro Hekmat
5   Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Cologne, Köln, Germany
,
Wolfgang Schiller
6   Clinic for Cardiac Surgery, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
,
Jan F. Gummert
7   Clinic for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Heart and Diabetes Center NRW, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
,
Joachim Thomas Cremer
4   Clinic for Cardiac and Vascular Surgery, University Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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10 June 2015 (online)

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Cardiac Surgery in Germany during 2014: A Report on Behalf of the German Society for Thoracic and Cardiovascular SurgeryThorac Cardiovasc Surg 2015; 63(04): 258-269
DOI: 10.1055/s-0035-1551676

The German Society for Thoracic and Cardiovasular Surgery has informed the Editor-in-Chief that there is a mistake in [Table V1] in the above article published in Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2015; 63(4): 258–269 (DOI: 10.1055/s-0035-1551676). The correct [Table V1] appears below.

Table V1

Isolated valve procedures (categories)

Procedures

N

Deaths

%

Single

18,408

625

3.4

Double

3,288

314

9.5

Triple

372

50

13.4

Transcatheter access (single valve)

9,184

386

4.2

Transcatheter access (double valve)

10

1

10.0

Not specified

97

8

8.2

Total

31,359

998

3.2

Notes: Combined procedures (with coronary artery bypass grafting, aortic surgery) are excluded.


Transcatheter valve procedures: 8,631 aortic valve implantations; 91 mitral valve implantations; 457 mitral valve repairs; 3 tricuspid valve implantations; 2 tricuspidal valve repairs; 10 combined procedures, aortic and mitral valve procedure; no pulmonary valve implantation.