Muftuoglu, Ilkay Kilic
Lin, Tiezhu
Bartsch, Dirk-Uwe
Freeman, William R.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institutes of Health (R01 EY016323-09A1)
National Eye Institute (P30 EY022589)
Article History
Received: 16 July 2020
Revised: 9 September 2020
Accepted: 17 September 2020
First Online: 16 October 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
: The University of California, San Diego Institutional Review Board approval was acquired for the review and analysis of patients’ medical records. The study adhered to the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki for research involving human subjects and complied with Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations.
: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
: 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. This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors.
: The funding organizations had no role in the design or conduct of this research.