Muench, Lukas N.
Kia, Cameron
Otto, Alexander
Mehl, Julian
Baldino, Joshua B.
Cote, Mark P.
McCarthy, Mary Beth
Beitzel, Knut
Mazzocca, Augustus D.
Article History
Received: 8 April 2019
Accepted: 31 October 2019
First Online: 14 November 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved by the University of Connecticut Health Center Institutional Review Board (IRB No. 06–577-2). Patients’ consent for the harvest of BMA from the proximal humerus during arthroscopic shoulder surgery was obtained. No consent was needed to use the excess biologic material for this study.
: No consent for publication was needed, because of the de-identified data.
: The following authors declare that they have no competing interests: CK, AO, JM, JBB, MPC, MBM. The following authors declare that they have competing interests: LNM received financial support from the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Technische Universität München for publication of this manuscript (processing fee). KB, ADM are consultants for Arthrex Inc., (Naples, Fl, USA), ADM received research funding from Arthrex Inc., (Naples, Fl, USA). KB is an editorial board member of BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders. None of the authors have non-financial competing interests.