Taguchi, Kazumi
Harper, Jonathan D.
Stoller, Marshall L.
Duty, Brian D.
Sorensen, Mathew D.
Sur, Roger L.
Usawachintachit, Manint
Tzou, David T.
Wenzler, David L.
Isaacson, Dylan
Xu, Angela
Chu, Carissa
Zaid, Uwais B.
Taylor, Eric R.
Ramaswamy, Krishna
Chi, Thomas
Funding for this research was provided by:
Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (K12-DK-07-006, P20-DK-100863)
Boston Scientific Corporation
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Article History
Received: 23 June 2017
Accepted: 29 October 2017
First Online: 9 December 2017
Compliance with ethical standards
:
: This study was funded by the educational grant from the Boston Scientific Foundation, the US National Institutes of Health with grants K12-DK-07-006, and P20-DK-100863.
: Marshall L. Stoller and Thomas Chi serve as paid speakers and consultants for Boston Scientific Corporation and have received educational grant funding from Richard Wolf. Marshall L. Stoller has served as a paid speaker for the Karl Storz Company.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of each institutional research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.