This observational study was conducted in the ICU at Rangueil Hospital, a primary teaching hospital of the University of Toulouse (France) according to the declaration of Helsinki (approval by Ethical Research Committee of University Toulouse Hospital).
In line with the Declaration of Helsinki, approval to the examination protocol for all three studies was given by the Ethics Committee and all participants provided written informed consent.
The study was approved by the local ethics committee of the Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich and was carried out in compliance with the guidelines of the Helsinki Declaration of 1975 (approval with the reference number 138/03).
The study was performed in accordance with the revised Declaration of Helsinki, approval was obtained from the independent ethics committee (Copernicus Group IRB, One Triangle Drive, Suite 100, Research Triangle Park NC 27709), and all patients provided written informed consent.
In many countries it is required to have a declaration of type-approval data.
This study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki with approval from the institutional review boards.
All biopsies were acquired in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki, Institutional Review Board approval, and with Patients' Informed Consent (PIC).
The analysis was conducted in accordance with the declaration of Helsinki with approval of the ethical committee of the University of Heidelberg and the federal office of radiation protection (BfS).
This study was conducted in compliance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki, and approval of the ethics committee required for the study was obtained from the Ethics Committee of the Karadeniz Technical University (2015/21).
