Reply to Matsubara

Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2025 Dec 1;67(12):ezaf395. doi: 10.1093/ejcts/ezaf395.

Marco Moscarelli^{1

2}, Francesco Pollari^{3

4}, Ilaria Franzese⁵, Fabio Barili^{6

7}; GIROC (Italian Research Group on Outcome in Cardiac Surgery)

GIROC (Italian Research Group on Outcome in Cardiac Surgery):
Marco Moscarelli, Francesco Pollari, Ilaria Franzese, Fabio Barili

¹ Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Maria Eleonora Hospital, GVM Care & Research, 90135 Palermo, Italy.
² Department of Surgery and Cancer-Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, London SW7 5NH, United Kingdom.
³ Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany.
⁴ Università degli Studi di Milano, 20122 Milan, Italy.
⁵ Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Verona Medical School, Verona 37134, Italy.
⁶ IRCCS Ospedale Galeazzi-Sant'Ambrogio, University Cardiac Surgery Unit, Milan 20157, Italy.
⁷ Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, United States.

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