Gillion, J. F. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5546-7263
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Lepere, M.
Barrat, C.
Cas, O.
Dabrowski, A.
Jurczak, F.
Khalil, H.
Zaranis, C.
Article History
Received: 2 October 2018
Accepted: 2 March 2019
First Online: 18 March 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: JG declares conflict of interest not directly related to the submitted work (x). ML declares conflict of interest not directly related to the submitted work (x). CB declares conflict of interest not directly related to the submitted work (x). OC declares conflict of interest not directly related to the submitted work (x). AD declares conflict of interest not directly related to the submitted work (x). FJ declares no conflict of interest. HK declares conflict of interest not directly related to the submitted work (x). CZ declares conflict of interest not directly related to the submitted work (x). J.F. Gillion: President of Club-Hernie and organizer of the annual Mesh Congress. He has received expert honorarium and/or non-financial support from Medtronic, Bard Davol, Cousin Biotech, MSD and Gore. M. Lepere: Non-financial support from Medtronic. C. Barrat: Consultant for Medtronic. Grants and/or fees from Bard Davol, Johnson & Johnson, MSD and Gore. O. Cas: Research funding from Medtronic. A. Dabrowski: Non-financial support from Medtronic. F. Jurczak: No conflict of interest. H. Khalil: Non-financial support from Medtronic. C. Zaranis: Relations with Bard DAvol, Cousin Biotech, MSD and Gore. RE, outside the submitted work.
: This study was registered onExternalRef removed(NCT02206828). The French national ethics committee, the Comité de Protection des Personnes (CPP), was informed, and it subsequently issued a study waiver (CPP Sud Est III Lyon-File QH 15/2014) due to the registry nature of the project.
: All participants received written information about the study, but in view of the study waiver, signed consent was not required. This study did not involve any studies on animals.
: It was provided by Patrice Becker, Mathilde Lourd, Djamila Bennat and Nicholas Paquette at Medtronic.