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Article History

Received: 15 December 2020

Accepted: 11 January 2021

First Online: 1 March 2021

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: Independent review board approval was obtained prior to all study related activity from the ethical committee of the University of Tübingen (protocol no. 270/2015BO1). Written informed consent was obtained from all patients before enrollment.

: Not applicable.

: Florian Härtig received reimbursement for congress traveling and accommodation from Bayer and Daiichi Sankyo. Ingvild Birschmann received speaker’s honoraria from Bristol-Myers Squibb/Pfizer, Siemens Healthcare and CSL Behring and reimbursement for congress traveling and accommodation from Aspen and Bristol-Myers Squibb and performed contract research for Siemens Healthcare. She is a member of the advisory board of LFB biomedicaments. Ulf Ziemann received has received personal fees from Biogen Idec, Bayer Vital, Bristol-Myers Squibb/Pfizer, CorTec, and grants from Biogen Idec, Janssen Pharmaceutica NV, and Takeda. Sven Poli received speaker’s honoraria and consulting honoraria from Bayer, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb/Pfizer, Daiichi Sankyo and Werfen, reimbursement for congress traveling and accommodation from Bayer and Boehringer-Ingelheim, and research support from Bristol-Myers Squibb/Pfizer, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Daiichi Sankyo. The remaining authors have declared that they do not have any conflicts of interest.