Harduin, Leonardo de Oliveira http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9012-9649
Barroso, Thiago Almeida
Guerra, Julia Bandeira
Filippo, Márcio Gomes
de Almeida, Leonardo Cortizo
Vieira, Brunno Ribeiro
Mello, Renata Silveira
Galhardo, Adriano Martins
Strogoff-de-Matos, Jorge Paulo
Article History
Received: 5 December 2023
Accepted: 10 June 2024
First Online: 2 July 2024
Declarations
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: L.O.H. reports receipt of research grants from Merit Medical Systems and Bard BD and consulting or lecture fees from Medtronic, Bard BD, Merit Medical Systems, Scitech Medical, and Gore. T.A.B., M.G.F., A.M.G., and L.C.A. report receiving research grants from Merit Medical Systems, Scitech Medical<sup>©</sup>, and Bard BD, as well as consulting and lecture fees from Medtronic, Bard BD, Merit Medical Systems, Inc., Scitech Medical, and Gore. J.P.S.M. received consultancy fees from Fresenius Medical Care Brazil. J.B.G. Nothing to disclose. B.R.V. Nothing to disclose. R.S.M. Nothing to disclose.
: For this type of study consent for publication is not required.
: This study was conducted at the following four centers: 1) Centro Clínico Livcare (Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), 2) Instituto de Angiologia e Cirurgia Vascular (Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), 3) Clínica Inteligência Vascular Avançada (Salvador, Bahia, Brazil) and 4) Dermavasc (Brasília, Distrito Federal, Brazil).
: For this type of study formal consent is not required.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The research ethics committee at the Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, approved this study under protocol number 63527022.0.0000.5243. For this type of study formal consent is not required.