Romagna, Alexander
Schwartz, Christoph
Huffmann, Beate
Hitzl, Wolfgang
Kristof, Rudolf A.
Clusmann, Hans
Blume, Christian
Funding for this research was provided by:
Universitätsklinikum RWTH Aachen
Article History
Received: 5 August 2024
Accepted: 28 April 2025
First Online: 7 May 2025
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: 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. The study protocol was reviewed and approved by the institutional review board (EK 125/16) and the need for a formal informed consent to participate was waived by the IRB given the retrospective nature of this study.