Labetoulle, Marc
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Behndig, Anders
Tassignon, Marie-José
Nuijts, Rudy
Mencucci, Rita
Güell, José Luis
Pleyer, Uwe
Szaflik, Jacek
Rosen, Paul
Bérard, Alain
Chiambaretta, Frédéric
Cochener-Lamard, Béatrice
Article History
Received: 4 December 2019
Accepted: 14 February 2020
First Online: 3 March 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Written informed consent was obtained from each patient. Ethics committee approvals were obtained in each country prior to enrolling any patient from each of the following committees:1. COMITE DE PROTECTION DES PERSONNES SUD-OUEST ET OUTRE-MER III for all the study centres in France: Hôpital Bicêtre, Hôpital privé Les Franciscaines, Hôpital Gabriel Montpied and CHU Morvan.2. REGIONALA ETIKPRÖVNINGSNÄMNDEN I UMEÅ for Umeå University Hospital, Umeå, Sweden.3. COMITE VOOR MEDISCHE ETHIEK for Universitair Ziekenhuis Antwerpen, Edegem, Belgium.4. University Eye Clinic, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Maastricht, the Netherlands.5. COMITATO ETICO DELL’AZIENDA OSPEDALIERO-UNIVERSITARIA for A.O.U. Careggi for Clinica Oculistica, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze, Italy.6. COMITÉ ÉTICO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CLÍNICA DEL HOSPITAL CLÍNIC I PROVINCIAL DE BARCELONA for Instituto Microcirugía Ocular (IMO), Barcelona, Spain.7. ETHIKKOMMISSION BEI DER LMU MÜNCHEN for Universitäts-Augenklinik, Charité Campus Virchow-Klinik, Berlin, Germany.
: Not applicable.
: Dr. Labetoulle reports personal fees from ALCON, personal fees from Allergan, personal fees from Bausch & Lomb, personal fees from Dompe, personal fees from Horus, personal fees from MSD, personal fees from Novartis, personal fees from Santen, personal fees from Shire, grants and personal fees from Laboratoires Thea, outside the submitted work. Dr. Behndig has nothing to report. Dr. Tassignon reports personal fees from Laboratoires Thea, personal fees from Zeiss, personal fees from Morcher, personal fees from Ziemer, outside the submitted work. Dr. Nuijts reports grants, personal fees and non-financial support from Laboratoires Thea, during the conduct of the study; grants from Alcon, grants from Abbott AMO, grants from Bausch and Lomb, outside the submitted work. Dr. Mencucci has nothing to disclose. Dr. Pleyer has nothing to disclose. Dr. Güell is a Consultant for Ophtec, Kowa Zeiss Meditec, Alcon, Laboratoires Thea, Orca Surgical and an owner of Calhoun Vision and Visiometrics and received a grant from instituto Microcirugia Ocular. Dr. Szaflik has nothing to disclose. Dr. Rosen has nothing to disclose. Dr. Bérard has received funding for participating in the study from Laboratoires Thea. Dr. Chiambaretta was a consultant for Laboratoires Thea, Novartis and Santen. Dr. Cochener-Lamard reports grants from Alcon, personal fees from Zeiss, personal fees from Johnson and Johnson, personal fees from Hoya, grants and personal fees from Laboratoires Thea, personal fees from Santen, personal fees from Cutting Edge, and personal fees from Horus, outside the submitted work.