Martins, Amélia http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2417-5441
Rodrigues, Tiago M.
Soares, Mário
Dolan, Michael-John
Murta, Joaquim N.
Silva, Rufino
Marques, João P.
Article History
Received: 10 September 2018
Revised: 22 December 2018
Accepted: 9 February 2019
First Online: 24 February 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: J.P.M. performs consulting services for Bayer. J.N.M. is a member of the scientific Advisory Board of Alcon. R.S. is a member of the Advisory Board for Bayer, Allergan, Novartis, Alcon, THEA and Alimera. The remaining authors have no conflict of interest to disclose. None of the authors has any financial or non-financial interest in the subject matter or materials discussed in this manuscript.
: All procedures performed in this study were in accordance with the ethical standards of the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments and this research project was approved by the institutional research committee of <i>Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra</i> (CHUC).
: Oral and written informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in this study.