Thurner, Annette https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5557-6563
Peter, Dominik
Lichthardt, Sven
Augustin, Anne Marie
Flemming, Sven
Kickuth, Ralph
Article History
Received: 8 September 2025
Revised: 12 December 2025
Accepted: 20 December 2025
First Online: 30 January 2026
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The scientific guarantor of this publication is Ralph Kickuth (Kickuth_R@ukw.de).
: The authors of this manuscript declare relationships with the following companies: Ralph Kickuth received speaker honoraria from BD and Cordis. The authors of this manuscript declare no relationships with any companies, whose products or services may be related to the subject matter of the article.
: One of the authors has significant statistical expertise. No complex statistical methods were necessary for this paper.
: Written informed consent was waived by the Institutional Review Board.
: Institutional Review Board approval was obtained.
: The preliminary results of 23 study subjects have been previously reported as a research letter in the European Journal of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery in 2023 (PMID 37030410; ).
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