Milan Manani, Sabrina
Virzì, Grazia Maria
Giuliani, Anna
Crepaldi, Carlo
Ronco, Claudio
Article History
Received: 4 February 2019
Accepted: 26 March 2019
First Online: 6 April 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: No authors have reported a conflict of interest. This manuscript was seen and approved by all authors listed. It is not under consideration for publication elsewhere in a similar form, in any language, except in abstract form.
: 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 study was approved by the Ethics Committee of San Bortolo Hospital in Vicenza.
: All the patients or their relatives were informed about the experimental protocol and the objectives of the study before providing informed consent and blood samples. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.