Haider, Ahmed
Bengs, Susan
Maredziak, Monika
Messerli, Michael
Fiechter, Michael
Giannopoulos, Andreas A.
Treyer, Valerie
Schwyzer, Moritz
Kamani, Christel Hermann
Patriki, Dimitri
von Felten, Elia
Benz, Dominik C.
Fuchs, Tobias A.
Gräni, Christoph
Pazhenkottil, Aju P.
Kaufmann, Philipp A.
Buechel, Ronny R.
Gebhard, Catherine
Funding for this research was provided by:
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (Research grant to CG)
Olga Mayenfisch Foundation (Research grant to CG)
OPO-Stiftung (Research grant to CG)
Novartis Stiftung für Medizinisch-Biologische Forschung (Research grant to CG)
Swissheart Foundation (Research grant to CG)
Helmut Horten Foundation (Research grant to CG)
Iten-Kohaut Foundation (Research grant to MM)
Article History
Received: 14 September 2018
Accepted: 4 January 2019
First Online: 16 January 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
:
: All authors have the following to disclose: The University Hospital of Zurich holds a research contract with GE Healthcare. CG has received research grants from the Novartis Foundation, Switzerland.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Our study was approved by the Cantonal Ethics Board in Zurich, Switzerland (BASEC No. 2017–01112). The need to obtain informed consent was waived by the ethics committee due to the retrospective nature of the study.