Scarsini, Roberto
De Maria, Giovanni L.
Di Gioia, Giuseppe
Kotronias, Rafail A.
Aurigemma, Cristina
Zimbardo, Giuseppe
Burzotta, Francesco
Leone, Antonio M.
Pesarini, Gabriele
Trani, Carlo
Crea, Filippo
Kharbanda, Rajesh K.
De Bruyne, Bernard
Barbato, Emanuele
Banning, Adrian
Ribichini, Flavio
Article History
Received: 10 January 2019
Accepted: 21 April 2019
First Online: 22 May 2019
Compliance with Ethical Standards
: The local review board of other centers involved approved the study.
: Dr. Scarsini received an EAPCI education and training fellowship grant. Dr. Di Gioia is supported by CardioPaTh PhD program. Prof Banning received institutional funding for an interventional fellowship from Bosoton Scientific. Prof Banning is partially funded by the NHS NIHR Biomedical Reseach Centre, Oxford. Other authors have no conflict of interest to declare.
: 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 [CitationRef removed]. Informed consent was obtained from all patients included in the study.