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CORRIGENDUM

Corrigendum

Volume 63, March 2008

Pages H1206–H1215: Laurent G, Moe G, Hu X, Leong-Poi H, Connelly KA, So PP, Ramadeen A, Doumanovskaia L, Konig A, Trogadis J, Courtman D, Strauss B, Dorian P. Experimental studies of atrial fibrillation: a comparison of two pacing models. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 294: H1206–H1215, 2008. First published January 4, 2008; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.00999.2007 (http://ajpheart.physiology.org/cgi/content/full/294/3/H1206).—The authors wish to note that there exists some overlap between the article published in the American Journal of Physiology-Heart and Circulatory Physiology and an article published in the Journal of Cardiac Failure (1).

Specifically, Table 3 in the American Journal of Physiology article and Table 1 in the Journal of Cardiac Failure article contain some overlapping data, wherein data for two animals at baseline were removed from and data for two additional animals were added to the Journal of Cardiac Failure article and the 14th day (postpacing) data were entirely reanalyzed with different echocardiography methods.

The authors' original intent was to submit two different sets of studies (acknowledging some overlap). The first was to be a "methods paper" detailing the effects of chronic simultaneous atrioventricular pacing on atrial fibrillation inducibility and heart failure. The second was to be a detailed comparison of the effects, both acute and chronic, of a traditional model used for the creation of atrial fibrillation and heart failure (the RV pacing model and this new simultaneous pacing model), which would include some detailed mRNA quantification of collagen in addition.

Because of a miscommunication between the two corresponding authors at the time that the original manuscript was submitted to the American Journal of Physiology (August 2007), the corresponding author on the American Journal of Physiology article (P. Dorian) was unaware that the companion study had been submitted to the Journal of Cardiac Failure. When the revision was submitted to the American Journal of Physiology on October 1, 2007, the Journal of Cardiac Failure manuscript was still under review, and the two corresponding authors were unaware of the status of the other manuscript.

Details of this overlap should have been highlighted in the American Journal of Physiology article, and explicit reference to the Journal of Cardiac Failure article should have been made in the publication. The authors regret this oversight.

REFERENCE

1. Laurent G, Moe GW, Hu X, Pui-Sze So P, Ramadeen A, Leong-Poi H, Doumanovskaia L, Konig A, Trogadis J, Courtman D, Strauss BH, Dorian P. Simultaneous right atrioventricular pacing: a novel model to study atrial remodeling and fibrillation in the setting of heart failure. J Card Fail 14: 254–262, 2008.[CrossRef][Web of Science][Medline]

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