Moroni, Gabriella
Binda, Valentina
Quaglini, Silvana
Sacchi, Lucia
Raffiotta, Francesca
Cosa, Francesco
Montagnino, Giuseppe
Favi, Evaldo http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6465-428X
Messa, Piergiorgio
Ponticelli, Claudio
Article History
Received: 19 January 2019
Accepted: 10 April 2019
First Online: 23 April 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The authors have declared that no conflict of interest exists.
: All the procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional committee at which the studies were conducted and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. At the time the study was designed, it was formally discussed in our regular Multidisciplinary Research Meeting at the Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico (Milan, Italy) and the consensus was that IRB approval was not necessary because it was retrospective and non-interventional. Therefore, nor specific IRB approval number nor specific written documents regarding the present study are actually available. All transplant recipients followed up at our institution are consented for both treatment and research purposes at the time of activation on the transplant waiting list as per local and national regulatory requirements. As a consequence, all subjects enrolled into the study were already aware that their anonymized data including viral status and other biomedical parameters would have been used for planning and/or research.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.