The journal retracts the article, titled “Left Ventricular Non-Compaction in Children: Aetiology and Diagnostic Criteria” [1], cited above.
Following publication, concerns were brought to the attention of the Editorial Office regarding an overlap between this publication [1] and a previously published article [2] produced by a different authorship group.
Adhering to our complaints procedure, the Editorial Office and Editorial Board conducted an investigation that confirmed a significant overlap between the two articles [1,2], without appropriate acknowledgment or citation. As a result, the Editorial Board have decided to retract this paper as per MDPI’s retraction policy (https://www.mdpi.com/ethics#_bookmark30).
This retraction was approved by the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Diagnostics.
The authors did not provide a comment on this decision.
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