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UF reports grants from Medtronic, other from Medtronic, Stryker and CSL-Behring, outside the submitted work. FB is proctor for Abbott, Boston-Scientific and Medtronic; he reports consultancies from Terumo and Meril. SW reports research and educational grants to the institution from Abbott, Amgen, BMS, Bayer, Boston-Scientific, Biotronik, Cardinal-Health, CSL-Behring, Daiichi-Sankyo, Edwards-Lifesciences, Johnson&Johnson, Medtronic, Querbet, Polares, Sanofi, Terumo, Sinomed. LR reports research grants to institution by Abbott-Vascular, Boston-Scientific, Biotronik, Heartflow, Sanofi, Regeneron. He reports speaker\/consultation fees by Abbott-Vascular, Amgen, AstraZeneca, CSL-Behring, Canon, Occlutech, Sanofi, Vifor. MV has received grants and\/or personal fees from AstraZeneca, Terumo, Alvimedica\/CID, Abbott-Vascular, Daiichi-Sankyo, Opsens, Bayer, CoreFLOW, Idorsia-Pharmaceuticals-Ltd., Universit\u00e4t Basel Department Klinische Forschung, Vifor, Bristol-Myers-Squibb-SA, iVascular, and Medscape. All other authors have reported that they have no relationships relevant to the contents of this paper to disclose.","order":3,"name":"Ethics","group":{"name":"EthicsHeading","label":"Disclosures"}}]}}