About the Authors

Giancarlo Todiere

Contributed equally to this work with: Giancarlo Todiere, Giovanni Donato Aquaro

todiere@alice.it

Affiliation Fondazione G. Monasterio Regione Toscana-National Research Council, Pisa, Italy

Lorena Pisciella

Affiliation Cardiologia 2 Azienda Ospedaliera San Camillo-Forlanini, Rome, Italy

Andrea Barison

Affiliation Fondazione G. Monasterio Regione Toscana-National Research Council, Pisa, Italy

Annamaria Del Franco

Affiliation Fondazione G. Monasterio Regione Toscana-National Research Council, Pisa, Italy

Elisabetta Zachara

Affiliation Cardiologia 2 Azienda Ospedaliera San Camillo-Forlanini, Rome, Italy

Paolo Piaggi

Affiliation Endocrinology Unit, University Hospital, Pisa, Italy

Federica Re

Affiliation Cardiologia 2 Azienda Ospedaliera San Camillo-Forlanini, Rome, Italy

Alessandro Pingitore

Affiliation Institute of Clinical Physiology, National Research Council, Pisa, Italy

Michele Emdin

Affiliation Fondazione G. Monasterio Regione Toscana-National Research Council, Pisa, Italy

Massimo Lombardi

Affiliation Multimodality Imaging Section, San Donato, Milano, Italy

Giovanni Donato Aquaro

Contributed equally to this work with: Giancarlo Todiere, Giovanni Donato Aquaro

Affiliation Fondazione G. Monasterio Regione Toscana-National Research Council, Pisa, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: GT GDA. Performed the experiments: GT LP EZ FR AB ADF. Analyzed the data: PP GDA GT LP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: GT GDA. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: GT GDA AP ME ML.