Erratum to: Clin Exp Nephrol DOI 10.1007/s10157-017-1380-2

The article, “The cardiothoracic ratio and all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality in patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis: results of the MBD-5D study”, written by Hiroaki Ogata, Junji Kumasawa, Shingo Fukuma, Masahide Mizobuchi, Eriko Kinugasa, Masafumi Fukagawa, Shunichi Fukuhara, and Tadao Akizawa was originally published electronically on the publisher’s internet portal (currently SpringerLink) on May 15, 2017 without open access.

With the author(s)’ decision to opt for Open Choice the copyright of the article changed on August 15, 2017 to © The Author(s) 2017 and the article is forthwith distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, duplication, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

The original article was corrected.