Capuano, Vittorio
Sacconi, Riccardo
Borrelli, Enrico
Miere, Alexandra
Gelormini, Francesco
Farci, Roberta
Bandello, Francesco
Souied, Eric H.
Querques, Giuseppe http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3292-9581
Article History
Received: 11 November 2019
Revised: 24 March 2020
Accepted: 29 April 2020
First Online: 14 May 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Vittorio Capuano has received lecture fees from Bayer Schering-Pharma (Berlin, Germany) and Zeiss (Dublin, USA). He has also received travel grants from Novartis (Basel, Switzerland) and Bayer Schering-Pharma (Berlin, Germany). Riccardo Sacconi, Enrico Borrelli, Francesco Gelormini, and Roberta Farci: None. Alexandra Miere has received lecture fees from Optovue (Freemont, CA, USA) and Farmila-Thea (Clermont-Ferrand, France). She has also received travel grants from Novartis (Basel, Switzerland), Bayer Schering-Pharma (Berlin, Germany), and Allergan Inc. (Irvine, CA, USA). Francesco Bandello is a consultant for Alcon (Fort Worth, TX, USA), Alimera Sciences (Alpharetta, GA, USA), Allergan Inc. (Irvine, CA, USA), Farmila-Thea (Clermont-Ferrand, France), Bayer Schering-Pharma (Berlin, Germany), Bausch and Lomb (Rochester, NY, USA), Genentech (San Francisco, CA, USA), Hoffmann-La-Roche (Basel, Switzerland), Novagali Pharma (Évry, France), Novartis (Basel, Switzerland), Sanofi-Aventis (Paris, France), Thrombogenics (Heverlee, Belgium), and Zeiss (Dublin, USA). Eric H Souied is a consultant for Alcon (Fort Worth, TX, USA), Alimera Sciences (Alpharetta, GA, USA), Allergan Inc. (Irvine, CA, USA), Farmila-Thea (Clermont-Ferrand, France), Bayer Schering-Pharma (Berlin, Germany), Bausch and Lomb (Rochester, NY, USA), Genentech (San Francisco, CA, USA), Heidelberg (Germany), and Novartis (Basel, Switzerland). Giuseppe Querques is a consultant for Alimera Sciences (Alpharetta, GA, USA), Allergan Inc. (Irvine, CA, USA), Bayer Schering-Pharma (Berlin, Germany), Heidelberg (Germany), Novartis (Basel, Switzerland), Sandoz (Berlin, Germany), and Zeiss (Dublin, USA).
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.