Elbaz, Hisham https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2468-0739
Schulz, Andreas
Ponto, Katharina A.
Nickels, Stefan
Pfeiffer, Norbert
Mirshahi, Alireza
Peto, Tunde
Funding for this research was provided by:
Novartis Pharma
Boehringer Ingelheim Stiftung (0)
PHILIPS Medical Systems (0)
Article History
Received: 23 January 2019
Revised: 1 July 2019
Accepted: 9 July 2019
First Online: 18 July 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors. 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. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. The study protocol and study documents were approved by the local ethics committee of the Medical Chamber of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany (reference no. 837.020.07).