Response to letter from Picichè: The microvascular network connecting extracardiac arteries to the heart

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Cardiology, Robert-Bosch-Krankenhaus, Stuttgart, Germany. Electronic address: [email protected].
• ² Vita Salute University and San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy.
• ³ The Queen Elizabeth Hospital Discipline of Medicine, University of Adelaide, Central Adelaide Local Health Network, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.
• ⁴ Institute of Cardiology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy.
• ⁵ Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
• ⁶ Department of Cardiology, Robert-Bosch-Krankenhaus, Stuttgart, Germany.
• ⁷ Cardiovascular and Cell Sciences Research Institute, St George's, University of London, London, UK.
• ⁸ Barbra Streisand Women's Heart Center, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA.