Fastner, Christian http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9367-4386
Hoffmann, Lea
Aboukoura, Mohamed
Behnes, Michael
Lang, Siegfried
Borggrefe, Martin
Akin, Ibrahim
Nienaber, Christoph A.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft and Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Article History
Received: 5 October 2017
Accepted: 25 July 2018
First Online: 20 August 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The methods were carried out in accordance with the relevant local guidelines and regulations. All protocols were approved by the medical ethics committee of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Rostock, Germany, and the medical ethics committee II of the Faculty of Medicine Mannheim, University of Heidelberg, Germany. Due to the retrospective character of this registry, written informed consent was not obtained but this was in line with the decision of the above-mentioned medical ethics committees.
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: Ibrahim Akin is a member of the Editorial Board of BMC Cardiovascular Disorders. The other authors declare that they have no competing interests concerning the content of this study.
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