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  1. Mathijs O Versteylen1,
  2. Sebastiaan C A M Bekkers1,
  3. Martijn W Smulders1,
  4. Raymond J Kim2,
  5. Anton P M Gorgels1
  1. 1Department of Cardiology, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, The Netherlands
  2. 2Duke Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Center, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA
  1. Correspondence to Dr Mathijs O Versteylen, Department of Cardiology, Maastricht University Medical Center, P Debyelaan 25, Maastricht 6202 AZ, The Netherlands; mathijs.versteylen{at}gmail.com

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    • Competing interests None.

    • Ethics approval Ethics approval was provided by the Institutional Review Board, Maastricht University Medical Center.

    • Provenance and peer review Commissioned; internally peer reviewed.

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