Kichikawa, Kimihiko
Ichihashi, Shigeo http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1809-4079
Yokoi, Hiroyoshi
Ohki, Takao
Nakamura, Masato
Komori, Kimihiro
Nanto, Shinsuke
O’Leary, Erin E.
Lottes, Aaron E.
Snyder, Scott A.
Dake, Michael D.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Cook Medical
Article History
Received: 28 July 2018
Accepted: 30 October 2018
First Online: 8 November 2018
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: Dr. Kichikawa has received speakers’ fees from Cook Medical. Dr. Yokoi has received speakers’ fees from Cook Medical. Dr. Ohki has received research fees for clinical trials. Drs. O’Leary, Lottes, Snyder are paid employees of Cook Research Incorporated., a contract research organization and Cook Group Company. Dr. Dake is a member of the scientific advisory board for W.L. Gore and Associates and has received consulting fees from Cook Medical and Novate Medical. All other authors have reported that they have no conflicts relevant to the contents of this paper to disclose.
: 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. This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors.
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