Maccio, Umberto
Rets, Anton
Grosse, Claudia
Ferguson, Nicholas Andrew
Langer, Rupert
Bühler, Marco Matteo
Gallo, Alessandra
Witzel, Isabel
Beham-Schmid, Christine
Wieler, Jann
Orsaria, Maria
Varga, Zsuzsanna
Article History
Received: 10 June 2025
Accepted: 22 July 2025
First Online: 8 August 2025
Declarations
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Approval from the institutional review board of each participating institution was obtained (see Materials and Methods).Individual informed consent was not required for this retrospective study with anonymized data, in accordance with the respective national laws (Swiss Human Research Act HRA, Art. 34; Austrian Research Organization Act (Forschungsorganisationsgesetz–FOG § 2 d); Italian Data Protection Authority (Legislative Decree no. 196/2003, as amended by Legislative Decree 101/2018), and in accordance with EU GDPR (Art. 9); U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) regulations, 45 CFR 46.104(d)(4).