Acknowledgements
We are grateful to our colleagues for their suggestions
Author Contributions:
“Conceptualization, Marek Jędrzejek and Michał Kozłowski; methodology, Marek Jędrzejek and Michał Kozłowski.; software, Marek Jędrzejek, Michał Kozłowski, Ewa Peszek-Przybyła.; validation, Marek Jędrzejek, Michał Kozłowski, Piotr Pysz.; formal analysis, Tomek Jadczyk, Grzegorz Smolka, Wojciech Wojakowski.; investigation, Marek Jędrzejek, Michał Kozłowski,.; data curation, Marek Jędrzejek and Michał Kozłowski.; writing—original draft preparation, Marek Jędrzejek and Michał Kozłowski.; writing—review and editing, Marek Jędrzejek, Michał Kozłowski, Tomek Jadczyk.; visualization, Marek Jędrzejek, Michał Kozłowski, Ewa Peszek-Przybyła.; supervision, Grzegorz Smolka, Wojciech Wojakowski.; project administration, Grzegorz Smolka, Wojciech Wojakowski.; funding acquisition, Grzegorz Smolka, Wojciech Wojakowski. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.”
Funding:
This work was was co-financed by the National Center for Research and Development as part of the strategic program "Prevention and treatment of civilization diseases" Strategmed II Project "Integrated paravalvular leak closure system" - acronym VALE, contract no. STRATEGMED2/269488/7/NCBR/2015"
Availability of data and materials:
The datasets generated and/or analysed during the current study are not publicly available due national policy but are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
Institutional Review Board Consent Statement: Ethics approval and consent to participate
The need for informed consent was waived by the ethics committee (Medical Silesia University Bioethical Committee) because of the retrospective nature of the study. (Decision number: PCN/0022/KB1/82/20/21)
The need for ethical approval was waived by the ethics committee ethics committee (Medical Silesia University Bioethical Committee) because of the retrospective nature of the study. (Decision number: PCN/0022/KB1/82/20/21)
Informed: Patient consent was waived. Anonymous imaging data was used for this study therefore consent was not required.
Data Availability Statement: The datasets used and analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on request.
Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare no conflict of interest.
Consent to publish: Not applicable.
Competing interests: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.