Li, Renjie
Veltzke-Schlieker, Wilfried
Adler, Andreas
Specht, Maximilian
Eskander, Wael
Ismail, Mahmoud
Badakhshi, Harun
Galvao, Manoel Passos
Zorron, Ricardo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5438-9627
Article History
Received: 14 January 2021
Revised: 18 April 2021
Accepted: 21 April 2021
First Online: 27 April 2021
Declarations
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: The study was approved by the ethical committee of the local Institutional Review Board, and all procedures performed in this study 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.
: Renjie Li acknowledges the financial support from China Scholarship Council, outside the submitted work; the authors Manoel Galvao and Ricardo Zorron are both the consultant and Scientific Advisory Board from Apollo Endosurgery; the authors Wilfried Veltzke-Schlieker, Andreas Adler, Maximilian Specht, Wael Eskander, Mahmoud Ismail, and Harun Badakhshi have nothing to disclose regarding this study, nor financial ties that might pose a conflict of interest.