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. 2022 Mar 7;9:870390. doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2022.870390

Corrigendum: Robotic Cardiac Surgery in Europe: Status 2020

Stepan Cerny 1,*,, Wouter Oosterlinck 2,*,, Burak Onan 3, Sandeep Singh 4, Patrique Segers 5, Cengiz Bolcal 6, Cem Alhan 7, Emiliano Navarra 8, Matteo Pettinari 9, Frank Van Praet 10, Herbert De Praetere 11, Jan Vojacek 12, Theodor Cebotaru 13, Paul Modi 14, Fabien Doguet 15, Ulrich Franke 16, Ahmed Ouda 17, Ludovic Melly 18, Ghislain Malapert 19, Louis Labrousse 20, Monica Gianoli 21, Alfonso Agnino 22, Tine Philipsen 23, Jean-Luc Jansens 24, Thierry Folliguet 25, Meindert Palmen 26, Daniel Pereda 27, Francesco Musumeci 28, Piotr Suwalski 29, Koen Cathenis 30, Jef Van den Eynde 2,*,, Johannes Bonatti 31,, European Robotic CardioThoracic Surgeons (ERCTS)
PMCID: PMC8948430  PMID: 35342745

In the published article, affiliation 29 was incorrectly written as: 29 “Central Teaching Hospital of the Ministry of the Interior and Administration, Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education, Warsaw, Poland.” The correction affiliation is: 29 “Central Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of Interior and Administration, Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education, Warsaw, Poland.”

In the original article, there was a mistake in Table 1. In row 28 (Warsaw), the hospital's name was incorrectly written as: “Military Hospital Warsaw.”. The correct name is: “Central Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of Interior and Administration.” The corrected Table 1 appears below.

Table 1.

Centers currently performing robotic cardiac surgery and those active in years 2016–2019.

City Country Hospital Active in 2016-2019 Robotic system(s) in use
Aalst Belgium OLV Ziekenhuis YES Si -> Xi (2020)
Ankara Turkey Gulhane Education ve Research Hospital YES Si
Barcelona Spain Hospital Clínic de Barcelona YES Xi
Bergamo Italy Humanita Gavazzeni YES X
Bonheiden Belgium Imelda Hospital Bonheiden YES Xi
Bordeaux France University Hospital Bordoux YES Si -> X (2018)
Brussels Belgium Erasme Hospital Brussels YES S -> Xi (2019)
Brussels Belgium Cliniques Universitaires Brussels YES Si
Bucharest Romania MONZA Hospital YES Xi
Dijon France CHU Dijon YES Xi
Genk Belgium Ziekenhuis Oost Limburg Genk YES Xi
Ghent Belgium AZ Maria Middelares NO** Xi
Ghent Belgium University Hospital Ghent YES X
Hradec Kralove Czech republic University Hospital Hradec Kralove YES Xi
Istanbul Turkey Acibadem Maslak Hospital, Acibadem University YES Si -> Xi (2016)
Istanbul Turkey Istanbul SBU Mehmet Akif Ersoy Cardiovascular Surgery Hospital YES Si
Leiden Netherlands Leids Universitair Medisch Centrum YES Xi
Leuven Belgium University Hospital Leuven YES Xi
Liverpool United Kingdom Liverpool Heart and Chest YES X
Maastricht Netherlands Maastricht University Hospital YES Si
Namur Belgium CHU UCL Namur – site Godine YES S
Paris France Henri MONDOR Hospital, Assitance Publique/Hopitaux de Paris, Crétei YES Xi
Prague Czech republic Na Homolce Hospital YES Xi
Roma Italy San Camillo Hospital Roma NO* Xi
Rouen France Rouen University Hospital YES Si -> X (2018)
Stuttgart Germany Robert Bosch Hospital YES Xi
Utrecht Netherlands University Medical Centre Utrecht YES Xi
Warsaw Poland Central Clinical Hospital of the Ministry of Interior and Administration NO** Xi
Zurich Switzerland University Hospital Zurich YES Xi
Zwolle Netherlands ISALA Hospital YES Si

Centers are ordered alphabetically according to city.

*

indicates that the center was active in the years 2012-2015 and restarted its program in 2020.

**

indicates that the center initiated its program in 2020.

The authors apologize for these errors and state that they do not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. The original article has been updated.

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