Navsaria, Pradeep http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5152-3317
Nicol, Andrew
Krige, Jake
Edu, Sorin
Chowdhury, Sharfuddin
Article History
Received: 2 December 2017
Accepted: 20 January 2018
First Online: 24 January 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Drs. Pradeep Navsaria, Andrew Nicol, Jake Krige, Sorin Edu and Sharfuddin Chowdhury declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The study has been approved by the institutional ethics committee and has been performed in accordance with the ethical standards as laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards: University of Cape Town Human Research Ethics Committee approved study: 048/2007.
: This was a retrospective review of prospectively collected data (observational study); therefore, no consent was taken. The patients were managed according to standard Unit protocols. All data were collected by the first author on a password-protected computer and Excel sheet. None of the patients could be identified in the database as they were numbered consecutively from 1 to 278. The privacy and confidentiality interests of participants were preserved. No information can identify individuals.