Cova, I. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7831-6791
Maestri, G.
Forgione, A.
Canevelli, M.
Calia, C.
Leta, V.
Pomati, S.
Pantoni, L.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministero della Salute (GR-2021-12372081)
Ministero della Salute (GR-2021-12372081)
Article History
Received: 30 January 2026
Accepted: 22 April 2026
First Online: 7 May 2026
Declarations
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: The study protocol was approved by the local Ethics Committee of the ASST Fatebenefratelli–Sacco University Hospital, Milan. All procedures were conducted in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki.
: LP is a member of the editorial boards of Neurology, Cerebrovascular Diseases, European Stroke Journal, Cerebral Circulation—Cognition and Behaviour and associate editor of Neurological Sciences and has received small consultancy fees from Medtronic, PIAM, Amicus, and Boston Scientific. VL has received congress grants from Bial and Symprove, honoraria for speaker-related activities from UCB, Britannia, Bial, Profile, AbbVie, Merz, Ever Pharma, and Zambon, and honoraria for advisory-board-related activities from Bial outside of the submitted work. The other authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose related to this manuscript.