Klaus, Günter
Taylan, Christina
Büscher, Rainer
Schmitt, Claus Peter
Pape, Lars
Oh, Jun
Driemeyer, Joenna
Galiano, Matthias
König, Jens
Schürfeld, Carsten
Spitthöver, Ralf
Schaefer, Juergen R.
Weber, Lutz T.
Heibges, Andreas
Klingel, Reinhard
Funding for this research was provided by:
Diamed Medizintechnik GmbH, Cologne, Germany (Unrestricted research grant covering costs of ethics votes and personal costs. No other costs were accounted for this study project.)
Article History
Received: 15 December 2017
Revised: 22 January 2018
Accepted: 24 January 2018
First Online: 3 March 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
: Ethical approval for the study had been obtained for every study site. All parents or legal guardians of the participating children and adolescents gave their written informed consent.
: AH and RK are employees of Apheresis Research Institute, which received research grants from Diamed, Cologne Germany, and Asahi Kasei Medical, Tokyo Japan. JRS is funded by the Reinfried Pohl foundation and has served as medical adviser for MSD Germany, AMGEN, and Sanofi-Genzyme. In addition, he has received lecture fees by MSD, Sanofi-Genzyme, Synlab Academie, Novartis, and Berlin Chemie. For all other authors, no conflict of interest is declared.