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Article History

Received: 5 December 2017

Revised: 19 March 2018

Accepted: 20 April 2018

First Online: 8 May 2018

Compliance with ethical standards

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: Donald Tan and Jodhbir S. Mehta, inventors of the EndoGlide, have financial interests in the device (AngioTech, Reading, Pennsylvania, USA/Network Medical Products, North Yorkshire, UK). Matthias Fuest, Sharita R Siregar, Abdelsattar Farrag, and Hla Myint Htoon certify that they have no affiliations with or involvement in any organization or entity with any financial interest (such as honoraria; educational grants; participation in speakers’ bureaus; membership, employment, consultancies, stock ownership, or other equity interest; and expert testimony or patent-licensing arrangements), or non-financial interest (such as personal or professional relationships, affiliations, knowledge or beliefs) in the subject matter or materials discussed in this manuscript.

: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee (SingHealth Centralized Institutional Review Board, R348/06/2004 and R847/42/2011) 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.