De Vecchis, R.
Ariano, C.
Di Biase, G.
Noutsias, M.
Article History
Received: 4 November 2017
Accepted: 5 December 2017
First Online: 19 January 2018
Compliance with ethical guidelines
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: R. De Vecchis, C. Ariano, and G. Di Biase declare that they have no competing interests. M. Noutsias has received grants by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) through the Sonderforschungsbereich Transregio 19 “Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy” (SFB TR19) (TP B2), and by the University Hospital Giessen and Marburg Foundation Grant “T cell functionality” (UKGM 10/2009). M. Noutsias has been consultant to the IKDT (Institute for Cardiac Diagnosis and Therapy GmbH, Berlin) 06/2004-06/2008, and has received honoraria for presentations and/or participated in advisory boards from AstraZeneca, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Fresenius, Miltenyi Biotech, Novartis, Pfizer and Zoll.
: For this type of study (retrospective study) formal consent by Ethical Committees is not required. This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors.