Deftereos, Spyros N. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6757-543X
Koutlas, Evangelos
Koutsouraki, Efrosini
Kyritsis, Athanassios
Papathanassopoulos, Panagiotis
Fakas, Nikolaos
Tsimourtou, Vaia
Vlaikidis, Nikolaos
Tavernarakis, Antonios
Voumvourakis, Konstantinos
Arvanitis, Michalis
Sakellariou, Dimitrios
DeLorenzo, Filippo
Funding for this research was provided by:
Merck Hellas
Article History
Received: 30 July 2018
Accepted: 17 October 2018
First Online: 6 November 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was carried out in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and applicable national regulatory requirements and was approved by local ethics committees at each study site [ethics committee of the Papageorgiou Hospital of Thessaloniki (reference number 161/20.9.2012), ethics committee of the AHEPA Hospital (reference number 32/5.12.2012), ethics committee of the University Hospital of Ioannina (reference number 754/12.11.2012), ethics committee of the University Hospital of Patras (reference number 83/7.2.2013), ethics committee of the 401 Army Hospital of Athens (reference number 15/2012), ethics committee of the University Hospital of Larissa (reference number 19/13.11.2012), ethics committee of the Papanikolaou Hospital of Thessaloniki (reference number 11/3.10.2012), ethics committee of the Evangelismos Hospital (reference number 345/13.12.12), ethics committee of the Attiko Hospital (reference number 10/5.10.2012)]. Patients were enrolled after written informed consent had been obtained.
: Not Applicable.
: Spyros N Deftereos, Dimitrios Sakellariou and Filippo DeLorenzo are employees of Merck Hellas S.A. Michalis Arvanitis was an employee of Merck Hellas S.A when the study was conducted.
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