Stella, Martina http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9794-3184
Braat, Arthur J. A. T. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8824-8697
van Rooij, Rob http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8546-8283
de Jong, Hugo W. A. M. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3000-8316
Lam, Marnix G. E. H. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4902-9790
Funding for this research was provided by:
NWO (NWA.ID.17.059)
Article History
Received: 29 November 2021
Accepted: 22 May 2022
First Online: 21 June 2022
Declarations
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: MS is employed by the UMC Utrecht under a collaborative grant of the Dutch Research Council (NWO) between UMC Utrecht and Quirem Medical BV. RvR and HWAMdJ have acted as a consultant for BTG/Boston Scientific. AJATB has acted as consultant for BTG/Boston Scientific and Terumo. MGEHL has acted as a consultant for BTG/Boston Scientific and Terumo, and receives research support from BTG/Boston Scientific and Quirem Medical BV. The Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine of the UMC Utrecht receives royalties from Quirem Medical BV. No other potential conflicts of interest relevant to this article exist.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the studies mentioned in this review.
: Consent for publication was obtained for every individual person’s data included in this review.
: All procedures performed in studies mentioned in this review 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. For this type of review, additional informed consent is not required. The clinical studies mentioned in this review are registered with Clinicaltrials.gov as: Hepar I-NCT01031784-15th December 2009; Hepar II-NCT01612325-5th June 2012; Hepar PLuS-NCT02067988-20th February 2014; SIM-NCT02208804-5th August 2014; Hepar Primary-NCT03379844-20th December 2017; HORA EST-NCT03437382-19th February 2018; Emeritus-NCT04269499-13th February 2020; RECORD-NCT05111795-8th November 2021; iHepar-NCT05114148-9th November 2021.