Muysoms, F.
Van Cleven, S.
Pletinckx, P.
Ballecer, C.
Ramaswamy, A.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Committee for innovation of Maria Middelares Ghent, Belgium
Article History
Received: 9 June 2018
Accepted: 14 September 2018
First Online: 22 September 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: FM declares conflict of interest not directly related to the submitted work (research grant and consultancy fees from Medtronic, research grants and speakers fees from Dynamesh, speakers fee from Bard Davol, proctoring contract and consultancy fees for Intuitive Surgical, consultancy fees from CMR surgical). SVC declares no conflict of interest. PP decares no conflict of interest. CB declares conflict of interest not directly related to the submitted work (consultancy fees from Intuitive Surgical and Bard Davol). AR declares conflict of interest not directly related to the submitted work (consultancy fees from ValenTx).
: The study was approved by the ethics committee at the University of Antwerp and by the local ethics committee at Maria Middelares Ghent hospital with the Belgian trial number B300201629630.
: All patients signed the informed consent form.
: 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.
: The study protocol was submitted at ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT02975414) before the start of the study.