Langenbucher, Achim http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9175-6177
Szentmáry, Nóra
Cayless, Alan
Wendelstein, Jascha
Hoffmann, Peter
Funding for this research was provided by:
Universität des Saarlandes
Article History
Received: 7 March 2023
Revised: 4 June 2023
Accepted: 11 August 2023
First Online: 1 September 2023
Declarations
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: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the (Ärztekammer des Saarlandes) and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The local ethics committee (Ärztekammer des Saarlandes) has provided a waiver for this study (registration number 157/21).
: All data processed in this study were already anonymised at the source before being transferred to us for processing. This precludes any back-tracing of the identity, and therefore, informed consent of the patients was not necessary.This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors.
: Dr. Langenbucher reports speaker fees from Hoya Surgical and Johnson & Johnson Vision outside the submitted work.Dr. Szentmáry and Dr. Cayless report no financial or proprietary interests.Dr. Wendelstein reports speaker fees from Carl Zeiss Meditec AG, Alcon and Johnson & Johnson Vision outside of the submitted work.Dr. Hoffmann reports speaker fees from Hoya Surgical and Johnson & Johnson outside the submitted work.All authors certify that other than these declarations, they have no affiliations with or involvement in any organisation 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-licencing 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.