Jin, Juying
Min, Su
Liu, Dan
Liu, Ling
Lv, Bixiao
Funding for this research was provided by:
Edwards Lifesciences
Grant of Intergrated Demonstration Project of Chongqing Science and Technology Commission (cstc2015jcsf10008-1)
Article History
Received: 20 April 2018
Accepted: 2 August 2018
First Online: 4 October 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved by the ethics committee of the First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University (registration number: 20160301).Written informed consent was obtained from all patients in the GDFT group. The local ethics committee waived the requirement for informed consent in the control group due to the retrospective nature of the analysis.
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