About the Authors

Antonio Mancini

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

mancini.giac@mclink.it (AM); andrea.silvestrini@unicatt.it (AS)

Affiliations Dipartimento di Medicina e Chirurgia Traslazionale, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy

Francesco Guidi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software

Affiliations Dipartimento di Medicina e Chirurgia Traslazionale, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy

Carmine Bruno

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Dipartimento di Medicina e Chirurgia Traslazionale, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy

Flavia Angelini

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software

Affiliations Dipartimento di Medicina e Chirurgia Traslazionale, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy

Edoardo Vergani

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Dipartimento di Medicina e Chirurgia Traslazionale, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy

Paola Lanza

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliations Dipartimento di Medicina e Chirurgia Traslazionale, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy

Alvaro Mordente

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliations Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy, Dipartimento di Scienze biotecnologiche di base, Cliniche intensivologiche e peri-operatorie, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

Elisabetta Meucci

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision

Affiliations Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy, Dipartimento di Scienze biotecnologiche di base, Cliniche intensivologiche e peri-operatorie, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

Andrea Silvestrini

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation

mancini.giac@mclink.it (AM); andrea.silvestrini@unicatt.it (AS)

Affiliations Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy, Dipartimento di Scienze biotecnologiche di base, Cliniche intensivologiche e peri-operatorie, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors declare no conflict of interest. This research was funded by a grant from commercial source Merck Serono Italian affiliate of Merck KGaA Darmstadt Germany, but unrestricted and without competing interests (consultancy, patents or marked product use). Therefore, this does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.