Retraction of “Clinically established hemostatic scaffold (tissue fleece) as biomatrix in tissue- and organ-engineering research”

The Editors of Tissue Engineering are officially retracting the published article entitled, “Clinically established hemostatic scaffold (tissue fleece) as biomatrix in tissue- and organ-engineering research,” by Kofidis T, Akhyari P, Wachsmann B, Mueller-Stahl K, Boublik J, Ruhparwar A, Mertsching H, Balsam L, Robbins R, Haverich A. Tissue Eng 2003 Jun;9(3):517–523.

This article is being retracted due to the discovery of multiple publications of identical data in the following three journals:

• Kofidis T, Akhyari P, Boublik J, Theodorou P, Martin U, Ruhparwar A, Fischer S, Eschenhagen T, Kubis HP, Kraft T, Leyh R, Haverich A. In vitro engineering of heart muscle: Artificial myocardial tissue. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002 Jul;124(1):63–69.

• Kofidis T, Akhyari P, Wachsmann B, Boublik J, Mueller-Stahl K, Leyh R, Fischer S, Haverich A. A novel bioartificial myocardial tissue and its prospective use in cardiac surgery. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2002 Aug;22(2):238–243.

• Kofidis T, Balsam L, de Bruin J, Robbins RC. Distinct cell-to-fiber junctions are critical for the establishment of cardiotypical phenotype in a 3D bioartificial environment. Med Eng Phys 2004 Mar;26(2):157–163.

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