For the article by Jan Kajstura, Marcello Rota, Donato Cappetta, Barbara Ogórek, Christian Arranto, Yingnan Bai, João Ferreira-Martins, Sergio Signore, Fumihiro Sanada, Alex Matsuda, James Kostyla, Maria-Virginia Caballero, Claudia Fiorini, David A. D’Alessandro, Robert E. Michler, Federica del Monte, Toru Hosoda, Mark A. Perrella, Annarosa Leri, Bruce A. Buchholz, Joseph Loscalzo, and Piero Anversa (Cardiomyogenesis in the aging and failing human heart. Circulation. 2012;126:1869–1881; DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.112.118380), an ongoing institutional review by Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital has determined that the data are suffciently compromised that a retraction is warranted.
The American Heart Association, therefore, retracts the article.