Scalone, Luciana
Zucco, Furio
Lavano, Angelo
Costantini, Amedeo
De Rose, Marisa
Poli, Paolo
Fortini, Gianpaolo
Demartini, Laura
De Simone, Enrico
Menardo, Valentino
Meglio, Mario
Cozzolino, Paolo
Cortesi, Paolo A.
Mantovani, Lorenzo G.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Medtronic
Article History
Received: 12 October 2017
Accepted: 2 April 2018
First Online: 19 April 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study participation of each center was previously approved by the Local Ethics Committee, present in each hospital according to the Italian regulations on clinical research. Eligible patients had to sign an informed consent form after receiving all the necessary information on the aim of the study, the type of data and the method of data collection.
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