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Article History

Accepted: 18 February 2024

First Online: 2 March 2024

Declarations

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: Not applicable.

: This study has been supported in part by grant DOR n. 2208432/2022 from the University of Padova to LAC.

: Gianni Carraro, Valentina Di Vico, Loris Martinetti, Elisabetta Bettin, Martina Cacciapuoti, Lucia Federica Stefanelli, Laura Gobbi, Federico Nalesso, Francesca Katiana Martino and Lorenzo A. Calò have no conflicts of interest to declare.

: Although the anonymization process prevented any possible transmission of patients’ sensible data, to further save the privacy of the patients involved in the study, the data will be made available from the corresponding author upon reasonable request.

: Ethical review and approval were waived for this study, as permitted for a retrospective clinical investigation; the local Ethics Committee was informed.

: Informed consent was obtained from all participants.

: Patient consent was obtained by telephone before analysis of the data. Furthermore, subjects were not exposed to any risk by the irreversible anonymization of data. The anonymization process prevented any possible transmission of sensible data, saving subject privacy.

: Not applicable.

: Conceptualization: GC, VDV, LAC. Investigation: VDV, LM, EB, MC, LFS, LG, FKM. Data curation: VDV, LM, EB, MC, LFS, LG, FN, FKM. Data analysis: LG, FKM. Supervision: LAC. Writing—original draft preparation: GC, FKM, VDV, LG. Writing—review and editing: FKM, FN, LAC. Funding acquisition: LAC. All authors have read and agreed to the final version of the manuscript.