Prommer, Regina
Kienbauer, Melanie
Kargl, Simon
Schöfl, Rainer
Funding for this research was provided by:
Österreichische Gesellschaft für Gastroenterologie und Hepatologie (Forschungsförderung 2019)
Article History
Received: 6 October 2020
Accepted: 31 March 2021
First Online: 28 April 2021
Declarations
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: R. Prommer, M. Kienbauer, S. Kargl and R. Schöfl declare that they have no competing interests.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants or on human tissue were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1975 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. This analysis of our cohort of patients with HP was approved by the ethics committee of the Land Oberösterreich (State of Upper Austria 1124/2019, 22 July 2019) and by the ethics committee of the hospitals of the Sisters of Charity and the Brothers of Charity Linz (40/19, 29 July 2019). Informed consent was obtained from all patients who participated in the last follow-up investigation (prospective part) or their legal representatives. According to the ethics committees, no declaration of consent was required for purely retrospective data analysis.