Fheodoroff, Klemens http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6508-5055
Rekand, Tiina
Medeiros, Luisa
Koßmehl, Peter
Wissel, Jörg
Bensmail, Djamel
Scheschonka, Astrid
Flatau-Baqué, Birgit
Simon, Olivier
Dressler, Dirk
Simpson, David M.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Merz Pharmaceuticals GmbH (Not applicable)
Article History
Received: 14 August 2019
Accepted: 20 February 2020
First Online: 4 March 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was conducted in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. The protocol was approved by the local institutional review boards and independent ethics committees: University of Calgary, Conjoint Health Research Ethics Board, Calgary, AB, Canada; Health Research Ethics Board, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada; Committee of Protection for People Ile de France VIII, Ambroise Paré Hospital, Boulogne-Billancourt, France; Ethik-Kommission der Landesärztekammer Brandenburg, Cottbus, Germany; Chairman of the Ethics Committee, Comitato Etico Ospedale Valduce, Como, Italy; Comitato Etico Locale per la Sperimentazione Clinica, Azienda Ospedaliera Luigi Sacco di Milano, Milan, Italy; EC Secretariat for Clinical Trials, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata Verona, Verona, Italy; Regional Ethics Committee, REK vest, Haukeland Universitetssykehus, Bergen, Norway; Ethics committee for clinical research (CEIC), Lisbon, Portugal; Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge, Clinical research ethics committee, L’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Llobregat, Spain; Cleveland Clinic foundation IRB, Cleveland, OH, USA; Copernicus Group IRB, Durham, NC, USA; Indiana University IRB, Indianapolis, IN, USA; Medical College of Wisconsin, Froedtert Hospital, IRB, Milwaukee, WI, USA; BRANY IRB, Lake Success, NY, USA.All subjects provided informed consent.
: Not applicable.
: KF has received research grants from Ipsen and Merz Pharmaceuticals, and has received sponsorship from Allergan, Ipsen, and Merz Pharmaceuticals to attend conferences and advisory board meetings in the EU. TR has served as a consultant for Allergan, Ipsen, Medtronic, and Merz Pharmaceuticals. LM has received research grants from Merz Pharmaceuticals. PK has received research grants from Ipsen, Medtronic, and Merz Pharmaceuticals, and has received sponsorship from Ipsen, Medtronic, and Merz Pharmaceuticals to attend conferences and/or advisory board meetings in the EU. JW has received research grant support from, and served as a consultant for, Allergan, Ipsen, Medtronic, and Merz Pharmaceuticals. DB has served as a consultant for Allergan, Almirall, Ipsen, Medtronic, and Merz Pharmaceuticals. AS and BF-B are employees of Merz Pharmaceuticals. OS is a former employee of Merz Pharmaceuticals. DD has received payments from AbbVie, Allergan, Bayer, IAB-Interdisciplinary Working Group for Movement Disorders, Ipsen, Medtronic, Merz Pharmaceuticals, Sintetica, Syntaxin, and UCB, and is a shareholder of Allergan. DD also holds patents on botulinum toxin and botulinum toxin therapy. DMS has received research grant support from, and served as a consultant for, Allergan, Ipsen, and Merz Pharmaceuticals.