Pierro, Luisa http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2168-5224
Iuliano, Lorenzo http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6664-1327
Marchese, Alessandro http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7716-7261
Arrigo, Alessandro http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4715-8414
Rabiolo, Alessandro http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7772-5929
Bandello, Francesco http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3238-9682
Article History
Received: 31 January 2019
Accepted: 22 May 2019
First Online: 27 May 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Luisa Pierro, Lorenzo Iuliano, Alessandro Marchese, Alessandro Arrigo, and Alessandro Rabiolo declare no conflict of interest. Francesco Bandello is a consultant for: Alcon (Fort Worth,Texas, USA), Alimera Sciences (Alpharetta, Georgia, USA), Allergan Inc (Irvine, California, USA), Farmila-Thea (Clermont-Ferrand, France), Bayer Shering-Pharma (Berlin, Germany), Bausch And Lomb (Rochester, New York, USA), Genentech (San Francisco, California, USA), Hoffmann-La-Roche (Basel, Switzerland), Novagali Pharma (Évry, France), Novartis (Basel, Switzerland), Sanofi-Aventis (Paris, France), Thrombogenics (Heverlee,Belgium), 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.
: This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.