Erratum to: Mortality prediction after cardiac surgery: blood lactate is indispensible. Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2012 (epub ahead of print)

It has been brought to the Editor-in-Chief's attention on March 18, 2013 that there is a mistake in the list of authors of the following publication, published eFirst on March 11, 2013. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0032-1324796.

The correct order of authors and their affiliations is as follows:

Akmal M. A. Badreldin^1,2 Fabian Doerr³ Bernhard R. Brehm² Mohamed Abul-dahab⁴ Thomas Lehmann⁵ Ole Bayer⁶ Thorsten Wahlers⁷ Khosro Hekmat^1,7

¹Cardiothoracic Surgery, CardioClinic, Cologne, NRW, Germany

²Department of Cardiology, Catholic Hospital Koblenz-Marienhof, Koblenz, Germany

³Faculty of Medicine, Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, Erlanger Allee 101, Jena, Germany

⁴Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Kasr-El-Aini School of Medicine, Cairo University, Egypt

⁵Department of Medical Statistics, Computer Sciences and Documentation, Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, Jena, Germany

⁶Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Friedrich-Schiller-University of Jena, Jena, Germany

⁷Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Markus K. Heinemann, MD, PhD

Editor-in-Chief

The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon