Casini, Simona http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2672-2779
Marchal, Gerard A.
Kawasaki, Makiri
Nariswari, Fransisca A.
Portero, Vincent
van den Berg, Nicoline W.E.
Guan, Kaomei
Driessen, Antoine H.G.
Veldkamp, Marieke W.
Mengarelli, Isabella
de Groot, Joris R.
Verkerk, Arie O.
Remme, Carol Ann
Funding for this research was provided by:
Innovational Research Incentives Scheme Vidi (ZonMw 91714371, ZonMw 016.146.310.)
ZonMw Priority Medicines (PM-Rare) grant (113303006)
the Netherlands CardioVascular Research Initiative CVON (PREDICT2 CVON2018-30)
Article History
First Online: 8 January 2020
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All applicable international, national and/or institutional guidelines for the care and use of animals were followed. All procedures performed in this study involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the Amsterdam UMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Left atrial appendages were obtained from subjects undergoing cardiac surgery for coronary or valvular disease, included in the multicenter PREDICT AF study [CitationRef removed] (ExternalRef removed: NCT03130985).
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.