In the article by Zhou Y, Zhang J, Zhu M, Lu R, Wang Y and Ni Z, entitled "Plasma pentraxin 3 is closely associated with peripheral arterial disease in hemodialysis patients and predicts clinical outcome: a 6-year follow-up" [Blood Purif 2015;39:266–273, DOI: 10.1159/000381254], the institutional affiliations should be corrected as follows: Yijun Zhou, Jiwei Zhang, Mingli Zhu, Renhua Lu, Yongmei Wang, Zhaohui Ni. Department of Nephrology, and Vascular Surgery, Ren Ji Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China