Reply to Numataet al.Urbanski, Paul P.Author informationCardiovascular Clinic Bad Neustadt, Bad Neustadt, Germany* Corresponding author. Herz- und Gefaess-Klinik, Salzburger Leite 1, 97616 Bad Neustadt, Germany. Tel: +49-9771-662416; fax: +49-9771-651219; e-mail: [email protected] (P.P. Urbanski)Received February 17, 2012; accepted February 19, 2012European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery 42(3):p 602-603, September 2012. | DOI: 10.1093/ejcts/ezs164Copyright © Oxford University Press 2015