Rayamajhi, Shreya
Murugan, Nivashini
Nicol, Andrew
Edu, Sorin
Klopper, Juan
Naidoo, Nadraj
Navsaria, Pradeep http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5152-3317
Article History
Received: 11 January 2018
Accepted: 30 March 2018
First Online: 4 April 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Drs. Pradeep Navsaria, Andrew Nicol, Shreya Rayamajhi, Nivashini Murugan, Juan Kloppers, 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: 177/2010.
: This was a retrospective chart/database review; therefore, no consent was taken. The patients were managed according to the standard Unit protocols. All data were collected by the first and second authors 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 158. The privacy and confidentiality interests of participants were preserved. No information can identify an individual.