Ruscitti, Piero http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3487-8551
Berardicurti, Onorina
Iacono, Daniela
Pantano, Ilenia
Liakouli, Vasiliki
Caso, Francesco
Emmi, Giacomo
Grembiale, Rosa Daniela
Cantatore, Francesco Paolo
Atzeni, Fabiola
Perosa, Federico
Scarpa, Raffaele
Guggino, Giuliana
Ciccia, Francesco
Barile, Antonio
Cipriani, Paola
Giacomelli, Roberto
Article History
Received: 11 March 2020
Accepted: 12 June 2020
First Online: 22 June 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The local Ethics Committee (<i>Comitato Etico Azienda Sanitaria Locale 1 Avezzano/Sulmona/L’Aquila, L’Aquila</i>, Italy, protocol number 0139815/16) approved the study, which was performed according to Good Clinical Practice guidelines and the Declaration of Helsinki. After approval of our ethic committee, we collected written informed consents for patients presently and actively followed-up in each centre for the use of de-identified clinical and laboratory data and images for study purposes. However, since the retrospective nature of the study, for those patients who were not anymore followed-up (lost to follow-up or died during the time-period of assessment), after having made every reasonable effort to contact them, we used the fully anonymized clinical data according to the Italian Law on privacy only for research purposes without any other intended aim (<i>Garante per la protezione dei dati personali, Autorizzazione n. 9/2016 - Autorizzazione generale al trattamento dei dati personali effettuato per scopi di ricerca scientifica - 15 dicembre 2016</i> [5805552]).
: Not applicable, all the patients’ data are de-identified.
: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest for this work.