Fastner, Christian
Brachmann, Johannes
Lewalter, Thorsten
Zeymer, Uwe
Sievert, Horst
Borggrefe, Martin
Weiß, Christian
Geist, Volker
Krapivsky, Alexander
Käunicke, Matthias
Mudra, Harald
Hochadel, Matthias
Schneider, Steffen
Senges, Jochen
Akin, Ibrahim
Funding for this research was provided by:
Stiftung Institut für Herzinfarktforschung
Article History
Received: 23 October 2019
Accepted: 4 March 2020
First Online: 31 March 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Johannes Brachmann reports grants and personal fees from Biotronik (Berlin, Germany), Medtronic (Dublin, Ireland), Pfizer (New York City, NY, USA), and St. Jude Medical (Saint Paul, MN, USA). Horst Sievert reports study honoraria to institution, payment of travel expenses, consulting fees (personal honoraria had not been paid) from Abbott (Chicago, IL, USA), Boston Scientific (Marlborough, MA, USA), Lifetech (Nanshan District, Shenzhen, China), and Occlutech (Jena, Germany). Matthias Käunicke reports personal fees from Boston Scientific (Marlborough, MA, USA). Matthias Hochadel, Steffen Schneider, and Jochen Senges report unrestricted grants from Boston Scientific (Marlborough, MA, USA) for performing statistical analyses. Christian Fastner, Thorsten Lewalter, Uwe Zeymer, Martin Borggrefe, Christian Weiß, Volker Geist, Alexander Krapivsky, Harald Mudra, and Ibrahim Akin do not report any relevant conflicts of interest.