Wu, Xinlei
von Birgelen, Clemens
Li, Zehang
Zhang, Su
Huang, Jiayue
Liang, Fuyou
Li, Yingguang
Wijns, William
Tu, Shengxian
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Natural Science Foundation of China (31500797)
National Key Research and Development Program of China (2016YFC0100500)
research program from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (YG2015ZD04)
Article History
Received: 4 January 2018
Accepted: 31 January 2018
First Online: 3 February 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: None of the Authors have declared a conflict of interest in relation to this study, with the exception of that ST received a research grant from Medis. CvB is or was unpaid consultant to various device-manufacturing companies; his institution has received research grants, provided by AstraZeneca, Biotronik, Boston Scientific, and Medtronic. YL is an employee of Medis with a research appointment at the Leiden University Medical Center. Cardiovascular Research Center Aalst, the previous affiliation of WW, has received institutional grant support and consultancy fees on his behalf. All other authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: 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.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.