Sigl, Martin http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6162-6304
Beschorner, Ulrich
Zeller, Thomas
Waliszewski, Matthias
Langhoff, Ralf
Tautenhahn, Jörg
Amendt, Klaus
Article History
Received: 24 April 2018
Accepted: 12 October 2018
First Online: 25 October 2018
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: KA and RL have received lecturer honoraria and research grants from B.Braun to conduct this study. MW is a full-time employee in the Medical Scientific Affairs department of B.Braun Melsungen AG, Vascular Systems, Berlin/Germany. TZ received honoraria from Abbott Vascular, Bard Peripheral Vascular, Biotronik, Boston Scientific Corp., Cook Medical, Gore and Associates, Medtronic, Philips-Spectranetics, TriReme, Veryan, Shockwave, Biotronik, QT Medical and consulted for Boston Scientific Corp., Cook Medical, Gore and Associates, Medtronic, Spectranetics, and B.Braun.
: 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. This study has obtained IRB approval from the Ethics Committee University Heidelberg/Mannheim and an informed consent was reviewed and authorized by this lead ethics committee and all other ethics committees that were responsible for the participating centers.
: Consent for publication was obtained for every individual person’s data included in the study. There are no individual data of adult patients in any form published in this report.