Pereira, Austin
Popovic, Marko
Lloyd, John C.
El-Defrawy, Sherif
Schlenker, Matthew B. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1192-5992
Article History
Received: 11 July 2020
Accepted: 9 January 2021
First Online: 28 January 2021
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Author A declares that he has no conflict of interest. Author B declares that he has no conflict of interest. Author C declares that he has no conflict of interest. Author D declares that he has no conflict of interest. Author E declares that he has no conflict of interest.
: Research Ethics Board approval was obtained from Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and the University of Toronto. Due to the retrospective nature of the study, no patient consent was required for this study.
: The Research Ethics Board approved our request to publish anonymized data for this study.
: All procedures performed in studies involving participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: No informed consent was obtained from participants as data collected were retrospective in nature and part of the standard of care examination. This was approved by the University of Toronto research ethics board and adhered to the Tenet’s of Helsinki for retrospective case series studies.