Trusty, Phillip M.
Slesnick, Timothy C.
Wei, Zhenglun Alan
Rossignac, Jarek
Kanter, Kirk R.
Fogel, Mark A.
Yoganathan, Ajit P.
Funding for this research was provided by:
American Heart Association (17PRE33630117)
National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (HL67622, HL098252)
Article History
Received: 18 October 2017
Accepted: 5 January 2018
First Online: 16 January 2018
Compliance with Ethical Standards
: All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000. Informed consent was obtained from all patients for being included in the study. No animal studies were carried out by any of the authors for this article.
: Phillip Trusty, Timothy Slesnick, Alan Wei, Jarek Rossignac, Kirk Kanter, and Ajit Yoganathan declare that they have no conflict of interest. Mark Fogel received a research grant.