Cassilhas, Ricardo Cardoso http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6970-2551
De Sousa, Ricardo Augusto Leoni
Caxa, Luciana
Viana, Valter
Meeusen, Romain
Gonçalves, Fábio Luiz
Diniz e Magalhães, Caíque Olegário
Tufik, Sérgio
Dias Peixoto, Marco Fabrício
Monteiro Junior, Renato Sobral
de Mello, Marco Túlio
Funding for this research was provided by:
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (001)
Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (2013/05018-5)
Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (478229/2013-5)
Article History
Received: 4 April 2021
Accepted: 14 August 2021
First Online: 19 August 2021
Declarations
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: This study was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the Sao Paulo University under the protocol number 2141/11 in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and the CONSORT guidelines. This protocol was also registered at clinicaltrials.gov (#NCT02304731).
: Informed consent was taken from all patients.
: All authors approved the final version of the manuscript for publication.
: The authors declare no competing interests.