Duong, Tuyen Van
Wong, Te-Chih
Chen, Hsi-Hsien
Chen, Tzen-Wen
Chen, Tso-Hsiao
Hsu, Yung-Ho
Peng, Sheng-Jeng
Kuo, Ko-Lin
Liu, Hsiang-Chung
Lin, En-Tzu
Wang, Chi-Sin
Tseng, I-Hsin
Feng, Yi-Wei
Chang, Tai-Yue
Su, Chien-Tien
Yang, Shwu-Huey http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3707-1166
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Science and Technology in Taiwan (NSC-102-2320-B-038-026; MOST 105-2320-B-038-033-MY3)
Article History
Received: 5 February 2018
Accepted: 10 September 2018
First Online: 19 September 2018
Competing interest
: The authors have no competing interests to be declared.
: The study was approved by Taipei Medical University Joint Institutional Review Board (TMU-JIRB No. 201302024), Cathay General Hospital (CGH-OP104001), and Taipei Tzu-Chi Hospital (04-M11–090). The study procedures were also in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2013 (ExternalRef removed). All patients involved in the study have signed the informed consent documents on their own behalf.
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