The paper entitled "Aldosterone receptor antagonists decrease mortality and cardiovascular hospitalizations in chronic heart failure with reduced left ventricular ejection fraction, but not in chronic heart failure with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials" by Renato De Vecchis et al., which was published in Minerva Cardioangiologica 2017 August;65(4):427-42, has been retracted by the Publisher due to self-plagiarism.