Baranovicova, Eva
Vnucak, Matej
Granak, Karol
Kleinova, Patricia
Halasova, Erika
Dedinska, Ivana
Funding for this research was provided by:
Comenius University in Bratislava
Article History
Received: 1 October 2024
Accepted: 6 March 2025
First Online: 27 March 2025
Declarations
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
: All procedures involving human participants have been approved according to the ethical standards of the institutional research committee, including the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments of comparable ethical standards under nr. EK4/2021. Ethics Committee of JFMED CU was registered under no. IORG0004721 at the US Office for Human Research Protection, US Department of Health and Human Services and after approval, the Committee got a certification with the code “IRB00005636 Jessenius Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University in Martin IRB # 1”. Informed consent for included participants was checked and approved by the ethical committees of Martin University Hospital and Jessenius Faculty of Medicine’s Comenius University in Martin, and all signed informed consents have been archived for at least 20 years after the research was completed. The clinical and research activities being reported are consistent with the Principles of the Declaration of Istanbul as outlined in the Declaration of Istanbul on Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism.