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First Online: 7 November 2015

Compliance with Ethical Standards

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: George W. Burke, III; Francesco Vendrame; Sahil K. Virdi; G. Ciancio; Linda Chen; Phillip Ruiz; Shari Messinger; Helena K. Reijonen; and Alberto Pugliese declare that they have no conflict of interest.

: Studies described in this article involve human subjects. All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Our studies were approved by the University of Miami Institutional Review Board.

: Informed consent was obtained from all individuals who actively participated in the study. For some patients who did not actively participated in the study but whose data were retrospectively analyzed, studies were conducted under waiver of consent.

: For studies described that involved experimental animals, all applicable international, national, and/or institutional guidelines for the care and use of animals were followed. All procedures performed in studies involving animals were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institution or practice at which the studies were conducted.