Sagone, A.
Iacopino, S.
Pieragnoli, P.
Arena, G.
Verlato, R.
Molon, G.
Rovaris, G.
Curnis, A.
Rauhe, W.
Lunati, M.
Senatore, G.
Landolina, M.
Allocca, G.
De Servi, S.
Tondo, C.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Medtronic (This research was performed within the framework of the Italian ClinicalService, a project funded by Medtronic Italy, an affiliate of Medtronic Inc)
Article History
Received: 1 October 2018
Accepted: 17 December 2018
First Online: 3 January 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
: All procedures performed in this project 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.
: Maurizio Lunati and Roberto Verlato received modest consultancy and speaker’s fees from Medtronic. Maurizio Landolina received modest consultancy and speaker’s fees from Medtronic, Boston Scientific, and Boehringer Ingelheim. Giulio Molon received modest consultancy fees from Medtronic and Boston Scientific and speaker’s fees from Medtronic, Boston Scientific, St. Jude, and Boehringer Ingelheim. Claudio Tondo serves as a member of Medtronic European Advisory Board and Boston Scientific International Advisory Board. He received lecture and proctor fees from Medtronic, Abbott Medical, Biosense Webster, and Boston Scientific. All other authors have reported that they have no relationships relevant to the contents of this paper to disclose.
: This project was approved by each site’s Institutional Review Board and Local Ethics Committees.
: Each patient included in the ClinicalService project provided informed consent for data collection and analysis.