Caroppo, Ettore http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8411-2736
Colpi, Elisabetta M.
D’Amato, Giuseppe
Gazzano, Giacomo
Colpi, Giovanni M.
Article History
Received: 9 August 2019
Accepted: 11 October 2019
First Online: 26 October 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Caroppo E. reports personal fees from Ferring Pharmaceutical, outside of the submitted work. Colpi EM, D’Amato G, Gazzano G, and Colpi GM has nothing to disclose.
: The present study did not involve human or animal participants, being a retrospective analysis of de-identified data from two separate databases. For this type of study formal consent is not required.
: This is a secondary analysis of already published data. For both datasets, local IRB approval for the retrospective analysis of de-identified data had been obtained before conducting the original research. The present study was performed on de-identified, non-coded data.