Di Pierro, Francesco
Filippini, Maurizio
Lucia, Merlino
Khan, Amjad
Ujjan, Ikram
Khan, Salman A.
Cazzaniga, Massimiliano
Bertuccioli, Alexander
Sisti, Davide
Recchia, Martino
Palazzi, Chiara Maria
Tanda, Maria Laura
Zerbinati, Nicola
Carugno, Andrea
Senatori, Roberto
Article History
Received: 9 January 2026
Accepted: 20 May 2026
First Online: 3 June 2026
Declarations
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: The study protocol was reviewed and approved by the Ethics Committee of the University of Urbino “Carlo Bo” (Italy) (Minutes of Session No. 93, April 24, 2025). This study was registered at ClinicalTrials.gov (Identifier: NCT06978907). Written informed consent to participate was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: No potentially identifiable images or data are presented in this study.
: The complete conflict-of-interest disclosures have been omitted from this anonymized version of the manuscript in accordance with the journal’s submission requirements. In the full non-anonymized version, the relevant disclosures for two authors will be explicitly reported.