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Pereira, Hélder
Caldeira, Daniel https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2520-5673
Teles, Rui Campante
Costa, Marco
da Silva, Pedro Canas
da Gama Ribeiro, Vasco
Brandão, Vítor
Martins, Dinis
Matias, Fernando
Pereira-Machado, Francisco
Baptista, José
Abreu, Pedro Farto e
Santos, Ricardo
Drummond, António
de Carvalho, Henrique Cyrne
Calisto, João
Silva, João Carlos
Pipa, João Luís
Marques, Jorge
Sousa, Paulino
Fernandes, Renato
Ferreira, Rui Cruz
Ramos, Sousa
Oliveira, Eduardo Infante
de Sousa Almeida, Manuel
Article History
Received: 7 November 2017
Accepted: 20 March 2018
First Online: 24 April 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All included patients gave informed consent for the intervention and data collection for CNCDC (Centro Nacional de Colecção de Dados em Cardiologia from the Portuguese Society of Cardiology; ) and the registry procedures are in accordance with the rules of CNPD (Comissão Nacional de Proteccção de Dados – National Committee of Data Protection; ). The registry was approved by the from the Portuguese Society of Cardiology ethics committee. Protection of human subjects: The authors declare that the procedures followed were in accordance with the regulations of the relevant clinical research ethics committee and with those of the Code of Ethics of the World Medical Association (Declaration of Helsinki). Confidentiality of data: The authors declare that they have followed the protocols of their work center on the publication of patient data.
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