Margaritopoulos, George A.
Trachalaki, Athina https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3045-9387
Wells, Athol U.
Vasarmidi, Eirini
Bibaki, Eleni
Papastratigakis, George
Detorakis, Stathis
Tzanakis, Nikos
Antoniou, Katerina M.
Article History
Received: 25 June 2018
Accepted: 7 November 2018
First Online: 23 November 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Informed consent was obtained from all patients included in the UHH cohort. The study was approved by the Ethics Committees of the University Hospital of Herakleion (IRB number: 17030). Due to the retrospective nature of the analysis of the RBH cohort<sup>13</sup>, ethics committee approval was not required.
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