Saugel, Bernd http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6619-0722
Wildgruber, Moritz
Staudt, Albrecht
Dieckmeyer, Michael
Holzapfel, Konstantin
Kaissis, Georgios
Kirov, Mikhail Y.
Kuzkov, Vsevolod V.
Schmid, Roland M.
Huber, Wolfgang
Article History
Received: 6 December 2017
Accepted: 16 April 2018
First Online: 21 April 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Bernd Saugel, Mikhail Kirov, and Wolfgang Huber collaborate with Pulsion Medical Systems SE (Feldkirchen, Germany) as members of the Medical Advisory Board and have received honoraria for giving lectures and refunds of travel expenses from Pulsion Medical Systems SE. All other authors have no conflict of interest to disclose.
: All procedures 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 was approved by the ethics committee (Ethikkommission der Fakultät für Medizin der Technischen Universität München).
: Written informed consent was obtained from all patients or their legal representatives.