Barbui, Tiziano https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2747-6327
Carobbio, Alessandra https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9664-7084
Ghirardi, Arianna
Fenili, Francesca
Finazzi, Maria Chiara
Castelli, Marta
Vannucchi, Alessandro M. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5755-0730
Guglielmelli, Paola https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1809-284X
Rambaldi, Alessandro https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3739-7502
Gangat, Naseema https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9104-6172
Tefferi, Ayalew https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4605-3821
Article History
Received: 5 September 2024
Revised: 14 October 2024
Accepted: 17 October 2024
First Online: 6 November 2024
Competing interests
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: Results of this trials were derived from ECLAP randomized clinical trial (NEJM 350;2, 2004). In this study the following information was provided “The study protocol conformed to good clinical practice for trials and to the 2000 revision of the Declaration of Helsinki regarding medical research in humans. We obtained the approval of each local ethics committee before the start of the trial. All patients provided written informed consent. The study was conceived, conducted, and analyzed by the independent investigators under the aegis of the steering committee”.