Vijayan, Jeeva
Lachma, Rakesh Naik
Mohan Rao, Prasanna Simha
Bhat, Anand Subraya
Article History
Received: 19 February 2019
Revised: 17 July 2019
Accepted: 19 July 2019
First Online: 10 September 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
: We confirm that this manuscript has not been published elsewhere and is not under consideration by another journal. All authors have approved the manuscript and agreed with submission to Indian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.
: The 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.