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Article History

Received: 13 May 2025

Accepted: 26 June 2025

First Online: 15 July 2025

Declarations

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: Research reported in this publication was supported in part by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health under award number R01HL157991 (D.S.) and the NIH Common Fund under award number U54HL165440 (D.S.). James Fanning and Angela Chen are supported by the 2024 JOBST Lymphatic Research Grant awarded by the Boston Lymphatic Symposium, Inc. Madeleine Givant is supported by the 2025 JOBST Lymphatic Research Grant awarded by the Boston Lymphatic Symposium, Inc. All other authors have no financial disclosures to report (S.T., E.T., A.F., and K.D.).

: Institutional review board approval was obtained (protocol #2021P-000209). 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. All volunteers provided informed verbal and written consent prior to study enrollment. Volunteers were informed on the study purpose, study procedures, risk and benefits, and the collection and handling of confidential data. Volunteers were free to withdraw at any time, without reason and without cost. Volunteers provided informed consent that no identifiable information would be used in publications regarding data generated from the study.