Cardiology Journal 2011, tom 18, nr 6

We report the case of a 74 year-old woman admitted for coronary angiogram because of widespread electrocardiographic repolarization abnormalities. Her past medical history was mainly paroxystic atrial fibrillation. Her cardiovascular risk factors were age and smoking. Echocardiography revealed apical left ventricular hypertrophy. Physical examination was normal...

In their recently published article, Ates et al. [1] have evaluated the relationship between total white blood cell (WBC) count and the presence, severity and extent of coronary atherosclerosis detected in 817 subjects undergoing multislice computed tomographic coronary angiography for suspected coronary artery disease (CAD)...

In their “Letter to the Editor” Çelik and Bugan stressed the role of neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio in the prediction of cardiovascular (CV) events regarding our recent study “Total white blood cell count is associated with the presence, severity and extent of coronary atherosclerosis detected by dualsource multislice computed tomographic coronary angiography” published in Cardiology Journal [1].

We apologize the authors as well as Editorial Boards and Publishers of Journal of Applied Physiology and the Journal of Physiology for this case of plagiarism that unfortunately occurred in our journal. The scientific integrity of all authors and journals is very important to us and we thank Drs Moore and Brown for bringing it to our attention.