Kuscher, Stefanie http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6108-9702
Kronberger, Irmgard Elisabeth
Loizides, Alexander
Plaikner, Michaela
Ninkovic, Marijana
Brunner, Andrea
Auer, Herbert
Gassner, Eva Maria
Öfner, Dietmar
Schneeberger, Stefan
Funding for this research was provided by:
University of Innsbruck and Medical University of Innsbruck
Article History
Received: 9 April 2019
Accepted: 15 April 2019
First Online: 9 May 2019
Compliance with ethical guidelines
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: S. Schneeberger has received personal fees from Astellas, Chiesi, Novartis, MSD, Shire, and ITB. S. Schneeberger has received a grant from Chiesi. S. Schneeberger has received travel support from Astellas, Chiesi, and Novartis. S. Schneeberger is a member of the expert group of Astellas and Chiesi. None of the mentioned declarations of S. Schneeberger were related to the conduction of the present study. S. Kuscher, I.E. Kronberger, A. Loizides, M. Plaikner, M. Ninkovic, A. Brunner, H. Auer, E.M. Gassner, and D. Öfner declare that they have no competing interests.
: 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 approval for realization of the presented retrospective study was given by the Ethics Committee at the Medical University of Innsbruck (registration number 20170307-1537, date of approval: 14th February 2017). Informed consent: due to the type of study (retrospective analysis), informed consent of every single patient was not mandatory.