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Retraction notice to: Long-term assay of off-pump atrial septal defect closure using vena caval inflow occlusion and minimally invasive approaches in 130 cases

Retraction notice to: Long-term assay of off-pump atrial septal defect closure using vena caval... European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery 47 (2015) 1114 RETRACTION doi:10.1093/ejcts/ezu405 Cite this article as: Nezafati MH, Nezafati P, Soltani G, Jahanbakhsh S, Hoseinikhah H. Retraction notice to: Long-term assay of off-pump atrial septal defect closure using vena caval inflow occlusion and minimally invasive approaches in 130 cases. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2015;47:1114. Retraction notice to: Long-term assay of off-pump atrial septal defect closure using vena caval inflow occlusion and minimally invasive approaches in 130 cases a b, c Mohammad Hassan Nezafati , Pouya Nezafati *, Ghasem Soltani , c a Saeed Jahanbakhsh and Hamid Hoseinikhah Department of Cardiac Surgery, Imam Reza Hospital, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran Student Research Committee, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Imam Reza Hospital, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran Department of Anesthesia, Imam Reza Hospital, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran * Corresponding author. Department of Cardiac Surgery, Imam Reza Hospital, Ibn Sina Blvd, Postal Code: 9137913316, Mashhad, Iran. Tel: +98-9151578421; fax: +98-5137635535; e-mail: pouya_dg@yahoo.com (P. Nezafati). The online version of this article published on 17 October 2014 (2) In 2004, the first author was asked to abandon this method of has been retracted at the request of the editor-in-chief and the surgery by the Iranian Society of Cardiac Surgery. According to President of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences following the President of Mashhad University, the authors claim that serious concerns regarding the validity of the methods used and “this study included the cases before 2004 and that they just the results reported, as expressed by a reader. followed the patients until 2010.” However, in the methods The authors were invited to clarify the situation and provide the section of the article, it is stated that “Between 2002 and 2010, raw data used for the analysis. However, since the raw data sup- a total of 130 patients at Imam Reza Hospital (mean age plied were incomplete, an investigation was undertaken by the 15 ± 12.71 years) underwent closure of secundum-type ASD, President of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences. The prelim- using direct suturing through right anterolateral minithoracot- inary results of this investigation bring to light that: omy and ministernotomy without use of a cardiopulmonary bypass pump.” (1) The authors did not submit their study proposal to the These findings have prompted the editor-in-chief to retract the University Ethics Committee and there is no record of their online version of this publication and to recommend that readers application for such approval. neither perform this surgery nor cite this article. © The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. All rights reserved. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery Oxford University Press

Retraction notice to: Long-term assay of off-pump atrial septal defect closure using vena caval inflow occlusion and minimally invasive approaches in 130 cases

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Oxford University Press
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The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. All rights reserved.
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1010-7940
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1873-734X
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10.1093/ejcts/ezu405
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25326016
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European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery 47 (2015) 1114 RETRACTION doi:10.1093/ejcts/ezu405 Cite this article as: Nezafati MH, Nezafati P, Soltani G, Jahanbakhsh S, Hoseinikhah H. Retraction notice to: Long-term assay of off-pump atrial septal defect closure using vena caval inflow occlusion and minimally invasive approaches in 130 cases. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2015;47:1114. Retraction notice to: Long-term assay of off-pump atrial septal defect closure using vena caval inflow occlusion and minimally invasive approaches in 130 cases a b, c Mohammad Hassan Nezafati , Pouya Nezafati *, Ghasem Soltani , c a Saeed Jahanbakhsh and Hamid Hoseinikhah Department of Cardiac Surgery, Imam Reza Hospital, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran Student Research Committee, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Imam Reza Hospital, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran Department of Anesthesia, Imam Reza Hospital, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran * Corresponding author. Department of Cardiac Surgery, Imam Reza Hospital, Ibn Sina Blvd, Postal Code: 9137913316, Mashhad, Iran. Tel: +98-9151578421; fax: +98-5137635535; e-mail: pouya_dg@yahoo.com (P. Nezafati). The online version of this article published on 17 October 2014 (2) In 2004, the first author was asked to abandon this method of has been retracted at the request of the editor-in-chief and the surgery by the Iranian Society of Cardiac Surgery. According to President of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences following the President of Mashhad University, the authors claim that serious concerns regarding the validity of the methods used and “this study included the cases before 2004 and that they just the results reported, as expressed by a reader. followed the patients until 2010.” However, in the methods The authors were invited to clarify the situation and provide the section of the article, it is stated that “Between 2002 and 2010, raw data used for the analysis. However, since the raw data sup- a total of 130 patients at Imam Reza Hospital (mean age plied were incomplete, an investigation was undertaken by the 15 ± 12.71 years) underwent closure of secundum-type ASD, President of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences. The prelim- using direct suturing through right anterolateral minithoracot- inary results of this investigation bring to light that: omy and ministernotomy without use of a cardiopulmonary bypass pump.” (1) The authors did not submit their study proposal to the These findings have prompted the editor-in-chief to retract the University Ethics Committee and there is no record of their online version of this publication and to recommend that readers application for such approval. neither perform this surgery nor cite this article. © The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. All rights reserved.

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European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic SurgeryOxford University Press

Published: Jun 19, 2015

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