Aliabadi, Hamidreza
Nikpour, Arian M.
Yoo, David S.
Herndon, James E. II
Sampson, John H.
Kirkpatrick, John P.
Article History
Received: 18 August 2016
Accepted: 27 July 2017
First Online: 3 October 2017
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Reviewed and approved by ethics committee and Institutional Review Board (IRB) at Duke University Hospital. This study is an ethics/IRB-approved study with Approval/Reference Number (Protocol ID): Pro00006870.
: Reviewed and approved by ethics committee and Institutional Review Board at Duke University Hospital for publication of patient clinical data. We have also obtained written consent from all of the patients involved in this study.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.