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One hundred and one over-the-scope-clip applications for severe gastrointestinal bleeding, leaks and fistulas
Edris Wedi, Susana Gonzalez, Detlev Menke, Elena Kruse, Kai Matthes, Juergen Hochberger
Edris Wedi, Juergen Hochberger, Department of Gastroenterology, Nouvel Hôpital Civil and IHU, Strasbourg University Hospitals, F-67091 Strasbourg, France
Edris Wedi, Detlev Menke, Elena Kruse, Juergen Hochberger, Department of Medicine III - Gastroenterology, Interventional Endoscopy, St. Bernward Academic Teaching Hospital, D-31134 Hildesheim, Germany
Susana Gonzalez, Henry D Janowitz Division of Gastroenterology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10023, United States
Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Boston Children¡¯s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, United States
Edris Wedi, Juergen Hochberger, Section of Gastroenterology and GI Endoscopy, Interdisciplinary Center for Digestive Diseases, Strasbourg University Hospitals, Nouvel Hôpital Civil and IHU, F-67091 Strasbourg, France
Author contributions: Wedi E and Hochberger J designed and performed the study and wrote the paper; Menke D and Kruse E performed the research; Gonzalez S and Matthes K critically revised the manuscript.
Supported by The “Endo-Verein Erlangen”, a registered non-profit training organization, Baiersdorf, Germany.
Institutional review board statement: The study was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board and the Ethics Committee of St. Bernward Academic Teaching Hospital Hildesheim, Germany.
Informed consent statement: All involved persons, subjects or legally authorized representative gave their informed consent (written or verbal) prior to study enrollment and treatment. Identity of all subjects including all details were anonymized.
Conflict-of-interest statement: All authors declare that there is no conflict of interest with the paper presented.
Data sharing statement: Informed consent for data sharing was not obtained but the presented data are anonymized and the risk of identification is low. No additional data are available. Questions regarding the technical appendix, statistical code and data set are available from the corresponding author at juehochber@mac.com.
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Correspondence to: Juergen Hochberger, MD, PhD, Professor, Chairman, Section of Gastroenterology and GI Endoscopy, Interdisciplinary Center for Digestive Diseases, Strasbourg University Hospitals, Nouvel Hôpital Civil and IHU, 1, place de l’Hôpital, F-67091 Strasbourg, France. juehochber@mac.com
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Received: April 30, 2015
Peer-review started: May 7, 2015
First decision: June 23, 2015
Revised: September 25, 2015
Accepted: December 1, 2015
Article in press: December 1, 2015
Published online: February 7, 2016
