Asenbaum, Ulrika
Schoder, Maria
Schwartz, Ernst
Langs, Georg
Baltzer, Pascal
Wolf, Florian
Prusa, Alexander M.
Loewe, Christian
Nolz, Richard https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7030-5972
Funding for this research was provided by:
Medical University of Vienna
Article History
Received: 21 January 2019
Revised: 25 April 2019
Accepted: 22 May 2019
First Online: 27 June 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Richard Nolz.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
: No complex statistical methods were necessary for this paper.As suggested by the reviewers, an expert in statistics was consulted for revision of the statistics section.Pascal Baltzer, MDMedical University of Vienna, Austria, <i>Department of Bio-medical Imaging and Image-guided Therapy,</i> Division of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology.Pascal Baltzer, MD was added as one of the authors.
: Written informed consent was waived by the Institutional Review Board.
: Institutional Review Board approval was obtained.
: Some study subjects or cohorts have been previously reported in the <i>European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery</i> by Nolz et al [, ].
: • retrospective• cross-sectional study• performed at one institutionThis retrospective observational study followed the checklist of items as published in the STROBE guidelines.