About the Authors

Norberto Perico

Contributed equally to this work with: Norberto Perico, Piero Ruggenenti

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS, Bergamo, Italy

Piero Ruggenenti

Contributed equally to this work with: Norberto Perico, Piero Ruggenenti

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

pruggenenti@asst-pg23.it

Affiliations Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS, Bergamo, Italy, Unit of Nephrology and Dialysis, Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo, Italy

Annalisa Perna

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS, Bergamo, Italy

Anna Caroli

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS, Bergamo, Italy

Matias Trillini

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS, Bergamo, Italy

Sandro Sironi

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Azienda Socio Sanitaria Territoriale Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo, Italy, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano–Bicocca, Milan, Italy

Antonio Pisani

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Chair of Nephrology, Department of Public Health, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

Eleonora Riccio

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Chair of Nephrology, Department of Public Health, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

Massimo Imbriaco

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Advanced Biomedical Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy

Mauro Dugo

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Nephrology and Dialysis Department, Ca’ Foncello Hospital, Treviso, Italy

Giovanni Morana

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Ca’ Foncello Hospital, Treviso, Italy

Antonio Granata

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Unit of Nephrology and Dialysis, San Giovanni di Dio Hospital, Agrigento, Italy

Michele Figuera

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Radiology Unit, Vittorio Emanuele Policlinico Hospital, Catania, Italy

Flavio Gaspari

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS, Bergamo, Italy

Fabiola Carrara

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS, Bergamo, Italy

Nadia Rubis

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS, Bergamo, Italy

Alessandro Villa

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS, Bergamo, Italy

Sara Gamba

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS, Bergamo, Italy

Silvia Prandini

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS, Bergamo, Italy

Monica Cortinovis

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS, Bergamo, Italy

Andrea Remuzzi

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS, Bergamo, Italy, Department of Management, Information and Production Engineering, University of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy

Giuseppe Remuzzi

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Istituto di Ricerche Farmacologiche Mario Negri IRCCS, Bergamo, Italy, L. Sacco Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, University of Milan, Milan, Italy

for the ALADIN 2 Study Group

Membership of the ALADIN 2 Study Group is provided in S1 Appendix.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.