Solms, Alexander http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0945-2543
Shah, Anita
Berntorp, Erik
Tiede, Andreas
Iorio, Alfonso
Linardi, Camila
Ahsman, Maurice
Mancuso, Maria Elisa
Zhivkov, Tihomir
Lissitchkov, Toshko
Funding for this research was provided by:
Bayer
Article History
Received: 10 July 2020
Accepted: 17 September 2020
First Online: 24 September 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Alexander Solms is a Bayer employee and shareholder; Anita Shah is a Bayer employee and shareholder. Erik Berntorp has received grants/research support from Bayer, CSL Behring, Shire, and Sobi/Bioverativ; honoraria/consultation fee from Bayer, Octapharma, and Shire/Takeda; and speaker fees from Bayer. Andreas Tiede has received grants/research support from Biotest, Novo Nordisk, Octapharma, Roche, and Takeda and honoraria/consultation fee from Bayer, Biotest, Chugai, CSL Behring, Novo Nordisk, Octapharma, Roche, and Takeda. Alfonso Iorio has received grants/research support through from Bayer, CSL Behring, Grifols, Novo Nordisk, Octapharma, Pfizer, Roche, and Shire; Camila Linardi is a Bayer employee; Maurice Ahsman is a consultant for Bayer; Maria Elisa Mancuso has received honoraria/consultation fee from Bayer, Bioverativ, Catalyst, CSL Behring, Grifols, Kedrion, Novo Nordisk, Octapharma, Pfizer, Roche, Shire, and Sobi and received speaker fees from Bayer, Biotest, CSL Behring, Grifols, Kedrion, Novo Nordisk, Octapharma, Pfizer, Roche, Shire, and Sobi; Tihomir Zhivkov has received grants/research support from Bayer and is a subinvestigator of clinical trials for Apellis, Bayer, Catalyst, Octapharma, and Sanofi. Toshko Lissitchkov has received honoraria/consultation fee for advisory boards from Bayer, Roche, and Sobi; received speaker fees from Bayer, Novo Nordisk, Roche, and Sobi; and is a principal investigator of clinical trials sponsored by Bayer, CSL Behring, Biotest, Novo Nordisk, Octapharma, Pfizer, Rigel, Sanofi-Alnylam, and Sanofi-Bioverativ.
: The study was approved by the institutional review board at the single site and was carried out in compliance with the protocol, the principles of the 1975 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments, and good clinical practice guidelines.
: All patients gave written informed consent before initiation of any study-related procedures.
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