Erratum to: Thoracic and cardiovascular surgery in Japan during 2013

Erratum to: Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg (2015) 63:670–701 DOI 10.1007/s11748-015-0590-3

The following errors appeared in the above-cited article. (A) Cardiovascular surgery section: in the 3rd paragraph, on the 4th line, “9168 cases in 2003” should read “9165 cases in 2003”; on the 6th line, “15,757 cases in thoracic aortic aneurysm” should read “15,758 cases in thoracic aortic aneurysm”; on the 8th line, “4.0, 4.6 and 14.6%, respectively” should read “4.0, 4.7 and 14.6%, respectively”; on the 10th line, “16,752 cases” should read “16,560 cases”; and on the 13th line, “83.4% increase” should read “83.8% increase”. In the 5th paragraph, on the 14th line, “6.7% in 2003” should read “6.9% in 2003”. In the 6th paragraph, on the 2nd line, “83.4%” should read “83.8%”; on the 4th line, “placement” should read “replacement”, and “2.2 and 3.7%” should read “2.9 and 5.4%”; on the 6th line, “0.8%” should read “1.1%”; on the 25th line, “38.2%” should read “38.3%”; and on the 26th line, “41.9%” should read “59.4%”. In the 7th paragraph, on the 11th line, “23.4%” should read “22.4%”. In the 8th paragraph, on the 3rd line, “1.0 and 1.7%” should read “0.8 and 1.4%”; on the 10th line, “5.5%” should read “7.3%”; and on the 14th line, “8.5–6.4%” should read “8.0–6.4%”. In the 9th paragraph, on the 2nd line, “414 operations” should read “840 operations”; and on the 4th line, “298 operations” should read “371 operations”. In the 11th paragraph, on the 6th line, “8171 cases” should read “8971 cases”; and on the 9th line, “2.2%” should read “3.2%”. In the 13th paragraph, on the 4th line, “42% increase” should read “4.2% increase”.

Additionally, there are some errors in the following tables. Table 3 (3), on the 4th line (4 Damus–Kaye–Stansel operation), values of the columns “Neonate; Hospital mortality”, “Infant; 30-day mortality; Hospital”, and “Infant; Hospital mortality” should be “1 (33.3)”, “4 (8.0)”, and “6 (12.0)”, not “1”, “4”, and “6”, respectively. The title for Table 9 should read “Pacemaker + ICD (total; 4660)”. In (B) General thoracic surgery section, Table 33, the first line of the column “30-day mortality; Hospital” should read “7 (0.4)”, not “7 (1.4)”. Other tables with errors and their corrections are given below.

Table 1 Table 5 Thoracic aortic aneurysm (total; 15,758)

Table 2 (2) Non-dissection (total; 8971)

Table 3 Table 7 Assisted circulation (total; 1713)

Table 4 Table 33

In addition, the following error appeared in the above-cited article. (A) Cardiovascular surgery section: in the 2nd paragraph, on the 6th line, “A total of 67,325 cardiovascular operations” should read “A total of 65,312 cardiovascular operations”.