showed a trendp = 0.076
Patients with HALT showed a trend towards smaller AVA at 12 months follow-up (from 1.61 ± 0.42 to 1.51 ± 0.38 cm 2 , p = 0.076), whereas AVA remained unchanged in patients without HALT (from 1.67 ± 0.44 to 1.66 ± 0.44 cm 2 , p = 0.97).