About the Authors

Simone Biscaglia

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

bscsmn@unife.it

Affiliation Cardiovascular Section, Medical Sciences Department, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria S.Anna, Ferrara, Italy

Elisabetta Tonet

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Cardiovascular Section, Medical Sciences Department, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria S.Anna, Ferrara, Italy

Rita Pavasini

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Cardiovascular Section, Medical Sciences Department, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria S.Anna, Ferrara, Italy

Matteo Serenelli

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Cardiovascular Section, Medical Sciences Department, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria S.Anna, Ferrara, Italy

Giulia Bugani

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Cardiovascular Section, Medical Sciences Department, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria S.Anna, Ferrara, Italy

Paolo Cimaglia

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Cardiovascular Section, Medical Sciences Department, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria S.Anna, Ferrara, Italy

Francesco Gallo

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Cardiovascular Section, Medical Sciences Department, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria S.Anna, Ferrara, Italy

Giosafat Spitaleri

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Cardiovascular Section, Medical Sciences Department, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria S.Anna, Ferrara, Italy

Annamaria Del Franco

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Cardiovascular Section, Medical Sciences Department, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria S.Anna, Ferrara, Italy

Giorgio Aquila

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Morphology, Surgery and Experimental Medicine, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

Francesco Vieceli Dalla Sega

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Department of Medical Sciences, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

Matteo Tebaldi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Cardiovascular Section, Medical Sciences Department, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria S.Anna, Ferrara, Italy

Carlo Tumscitz

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Cardiovascular Section, Medical Sciences Department, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria S.Anna, Ferrara, Italy

Roberto Ferrari

Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Cardiovascular Section, Medical Sciences Department, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria S.Anna, Ferrara, Italy, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy; Maria Cecilia Hospital, GVM Care&Research, E.S: Health Science Foundation, Cotignola, Italy, Laboratory for Technologies of Advanced Therapies (LTTA), University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

Gianluca Campo

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

Affiliations Cardiovascular Section, Medical Sciences Department, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria S.Anna, Ferrara, Italy, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy; Maria Cecilia Hospital, GVM Care&Research, E.S: Health Science Foundation, Cotignola, Italy, Laboratory for Technologies of Advanced Therapies (LTTA), University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy

Competing Interests

RF received grants from Fondazione Anna Maria Sechi per il Cuore (FASC) and from Irbtech, personal fees from Merck Serono, grants and personal fees from Servier, Novartis Pharma, Boehringer Ingelheim; GC received personal fees from Astrazeneca, Abbott Vascular, Menarini and Boston Scientific. All other authors reported no conflict of interest relevant to the contents of this paper to disclose. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.