Heiss, Markus M. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3374-1150
Lange, Jonas http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7238-3344
Knievel, Judith http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6213-590X
Yohannes, Alexander http://orcid.org/0009-0001-4562-9924
Hügle, Ulrich
Dormann, Arno J. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7751-3029
Eisenberger, Claus F. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1647-4836
Funding for this research was provided by:
Private Universität Witten/Herdecke gGmbH
Article History
Received: 10 April 2024
Accepted: 22 July 2024
First Online: 31 July 2024
Declarations
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: Ethics approval by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of Witten/Herdecke University (No. 34/2020) was granted. The study was performed in accordance with the ethical standards as laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments. All patients provided written informed consent to participate in this study.
: M.M.H. holds a patent (suction stent for sealing a leakage) and is a consultant for Moeller Medical GmbH, Fulda, Germany. All other authors declare no competing interests.