Retracted

Abstract

(3):651-658). Further evaluation of clinical case materials which were not available to us at the time of submission and publication of this work suggests that a subset of the animals described in the paper may have had inadequate access to water, likely causing or contributing to the described hypernatremia-associated polioencephalomalacia. The conclusions of the paper, stating an association between hypernatremia and polioencephalomalacia remain valid, however with this new information we can no longer conclude that co-morbidity-associated illness was the sole cause of the hypernatremia in some of the reported animals. The condition is mentioned in a recent book as