Letter to the editor on “Cell therapy for stress urinary incontinence: Present‐day frontiers”

Abstract

We read with great interest the article by Vinarov et al. (2018), in a recent issue of the journal. We believe this is the first review article on cell therapy for stress urinary incontinence (SUI), and it is very informative for researchers and clinicians in that area. The authors conducted a systemic literature search using PubMed with a specific retrieval style and selected 15 clinical studies of cell-based therapies intended for treatment of SUI from the 172 retrieved articles, in addition to 32 non-clinical studies. In table 4, the 15 clinical studies were listed by authors and year; however, references for four articles/studies ("Yamamoto et al., 2012"; "Gotoh et al., 2014"; "Shirvan et al., 2013"; and "Stangel-Wojcikiewicz et al., 2014") in the table werenot found in the references section of the article. Information from these four articles was not cited in the main text of the article but only listed in the table; therefore, the authors must have intentionally omitted them from the references list. However, for the benefit of researchers and for transparency purposes, we believe the references should be complete. We therefore believe the editor should either issue an erratum or request the authors for a corrigendum to the reference list.