About the Authors

Guglielmo Parisi

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – original draft

☯ GP and MF contributed equally and should therefore be regarded as equivalent first authors.

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Matteo Fallico

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

matteofallico@hotmail.com

☯ GP and MF contributed equally and should therefore be regarded as equivalent first authors.

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Andrea Maugeri

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

Affiliation Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences and Advanced Technologies “GF Ingrassia”, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Martina Barchitta

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences and Advanced Technologies “GF Ingrassia”, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Antonella Agodi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences and Advanced Technologies “GF Ingrassia”, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Andrea Russo

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Antonio Longo

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Teresio Avitabile

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Niccolò Castellino

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University of Catania, Catania, Italy

Vincenza Bonfiglio

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Experimental Biomedicine and Clinical Neuroscience, Ophthalmology Section, University of Palermo, Palermo, Italy

Roberto Dell’Omo

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Health Sciences “V. Tiberio”, University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy

Claudio Furino

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, University of Bari, Bari, Italy

Gilda Cennamo

Roles Investigation, Methodology

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

Robert Rejdak

Roles Investigation, Supervision

Affiliation Department of General Ophthalmology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland

Katarzyna Nowomiejska

Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of General Ophthalmology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland

Mario Toro

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of General Ophthalmology, Medical University of Lublin, Lublin, Poland

Paola Marolo

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Surgical Sciences, Eye Clinic Section, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Luca Ventre

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgical Sciences, Eye Clinic Section, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Michele Reibaldi

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgical Sciences, Eye Clinic Section, University of Turin, Turin, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.