# RETRACTION: Sternal Wound Infections Following Internal Mammary Artery Grafts for a Coronary Bypass: A Meta‐Analysis

## TL;DR

This retracted paper originally claimed to analyze sternal wound infections after a heart surgery procedure using a meta-analysis.

## Contribution

The paper's contribution is null due to its retraction over a compromised peer review process.

## Key findings

- The paper has been retracted and its findings are considered invalid.
- The retraction was due to an investigation revealing a flawed peer review process.

## Abstract

RETRACTION:

LiM.
,
YuZ.
,
ChenQ.
,
ZhaoQ.
,
ChenX.
,
LeiC.
,
WangX.
, and
YangR.
, “Sternal Wound Infections Following Internal Mammary Artery Grafts for a Coronary Bypass: A Meta‐Analysis,” International Wound Journal
21, no. 1 (2024): e14349, 10.1111/iwj.14349.37596778
PMC10781594

The above article, published online on 18 August 2023, in Wiley Online Library (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/), has been retracted by agreement between the journal Editor in Chief, Professor Keith Harding; and John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Following an investigation by the publisher, all parties have concluded that this article was accepted solely on the basis of a compromised peer review process. The editors have therefore decided to retract the article. The authors did not respond to our notice regarding the retraction.