The Editors and Publisher regret to announce the following article published in 2012 has been retracted from publication in The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine:
Sellitto M, Messina F. Central venous catheterization and thrombosis in newborns: update on diagnosis and management. J Matern Fetal Neonatal Med. 2012 Oct;25 Suppl 4:26–8. (doi:10.3109/14767058.2012.714974).
This article has been found to reproduce content to a high degree of similarity, without appropriate attribution or acknowledgement by the authors, from the following original articles:
Revel-Vilk S, Ergaz Z. Diagnosis and management of central-line-associated thrombosis in newborns and infants. Semin Fetal Neonatal Med. 2011 Dec;16(6):340–4. (doi:10.1016/j.siny.2011.07.003).
Veldman A, Nold MF, Michel-Behnke I. Thrombosis in the critically ill neonate: incidence, diagnosis, and management. Vascular Health and Risk Management. 2008, 4:1337–1348. (doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/VHRM.S4274).
Shah PS, Shah VS. Continuous heparin infusion to prevent thrombosis and catheter occlusion in neonates with peripherally placed percutaneous central venous catheters. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2008 Apr 16;(2):CD002772. (doi:10.1002/14651858.CD002772.pub3).
A high degree of paragraphs and/or sentences in the review article published in The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine are almost word-to-word identical to the text published in these three referenced sources. Although, the authors have referenced the three previously published papers within their article, taking intact sentences or paragraphs from other published sources to this high extent is against the Journal’s policy on plagiarism, which can be found on our website: http://informahealthcare.com/userimages/ContentEditor/1255620151092/Authorship_Submissions_Plagiarism_Peer_Review.pdf.
The authors have been fully co-operative with our investigations and agree with the Editor and Publisher on this course of action to correct the literature record. It is important to note that these enquiries have not established any evidence of deliberate scientific misconduct by the authors.
The Journal of Maternal-Fetal & Neonatal Medicine published this article in good faith, and on the basis of signed statements of the corresponding author regarding the originality and ethical reliability of their work. The article is withdrawn from all print and electronic editions.
Gian Carlo Di Renzo and Dev Maulik (Editors-in-Chief)
Anna Treadway (Publishing Director Journals, Informa Healthcare)