Reply: Sometimes consensus is a euphemism for compromise

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Translational Medical Sciences, University of Campania "L. Vanvitelli", Naples, Italy.
• ² Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.
• ³ Departamento de Biologia Animal, Facultad de Ciencias, Instituto de Investigaciòn Biomèdica de Málaga, Universidad de Málaga, Ciber-CV, Málaga, Spain.
• ⁴ Department of Cardiac Surgery, European Hospital and Unicamillus University Rome, Rome, Italy.
• ⁵ Division of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Université Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium.
• ⁶ Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.
• ⁷ Division of Cardiac Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Mass.
• ⁸ Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Saarland University Medical Center, Homburg/Saar, Germany.
• ⁹ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.