Malavasi, Vincenzo L.
De Marco, Giuseppina
Imberti, Jacopo F.
Placentino, Filippo
Vitolo, Marco
Mazzeo, Ercole
Cicoria, Gianfranco
Casali, Edoardo
Turco, Vincenzo
Lohr, Frank
Boriani, Giuseppe
Article History
Received: 20 July 2019
Accepted: 19 November 2019
First Online: 2 December 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Professor Boriani has received small speaker’s fees from Medtronic, Boston, Boehringer, and Bayer, outside of the submitted work. The other authors reported no conflict of interest.
: Protocol approved by the Ethical Committee (No. 750/2018/OSS/AOUMO). All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Due to retrospective design of the study, no informed consent needed.