Tokuda, Takahiro
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Yamamoto, Masanori
Kagase, Ai
Koyama, Yutaka
Otsuka, Toshiaki
Tada, Norio
Naganuma, Toru
Araki, Motoharu
Yamanaka, Futoshi
Shirai, Shinichi
Mizutani, Kazuki
Tabata, Minoru
Ueno, Hiroshi
Takagi, Kensuke
Higashimori, Akihiro
Watanabe, Yusuke
Hayashida, Kentaro
Article History
Received: 21 October 2019
Accepted: 20 January 2020
First Online: 10 February 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Dr. Yamamoto, Dr. Tada, Dr. Naganuma, Dr. Shirai, Dr. Mizutani, and Dr. Watanabe are clinical proctors for Edwards Lifesciences and Medtronic. Dr. Araki, Dr. Tabata, Dr. Takagi, Dr. Higashimori, and Dr. Hayashida are clinical proctors of Edwards Lifesciences. Dr. Ueno is a clinical proctor for Medtronic. The remaining authors have nothing to disclose.
: This study was approved by all institutional review boards that participated in the OCEAN-TAVI registry. The OCEAN-TAVI investigations was registered with the University Hospital Medical Information Network (no.: UMIN000020423). The medical ethics committees at all hospitals approved this study protocol, and written informed consent was obtained from all patients before TAVI.