The editorial office of International Heart Journal would like to inform our readers that the experimental study titled "LncRNA DIGIT Accelerates Tube Formation of Vascular Endothelial Cells by Sponging miR-134" written by Chaofeng Miao, Haixia Cao, Yonggan Zhang, Xueli Guo, Zifan Wang, Jiaxiang Wang and published in the September 2018 issue of International Heart Journal (Int Heart J 2018; 59: 1086-1095) has been retracted upon request from the authors.