Abstract
Subsequently to the publication of this article, the authors have realized that an address affiliation associated with certain of the authors had been omitted. The authors' affiliation information should have appeared as follows (the omitted address affiliation is featured in bold): Yi‑Ying Yang1,2*, Xiu‑Ting Sun1,2*, Zheng‑Xun Li1,2, Wei‑Yan Chen3, Xiang Wang4, Mei‑Ling Liang5, Hui Shi1,2, Zhi‑Sheng Yang1,2 and Wu‑Tao Zeng1,2 1Department of Cardiology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat‑Sen University; 2Key Laboratory on Assisted Circulation, Ministry of Health, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510080; 3Intensive Care Unit, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Guangzhou, Guangdong 510260; 4Department of Cardiology, Laiwu City People's Hospital, Laiwu, Shandong 27110; 5Department of Cardiology, Sun Yat‑Sen Cardiovascular Hospital, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518020, P.R. China *Contributed equally. The authors regret this error in the affiliations, and apologize for any inconvenience caused. [the original article was published in the International Journal of Molecular Medicine 41: 1283‑1292, 2018; DOI: 10.3892/ijmm.2017.3322].