About the Authors

Agostino Colli

a.colli@ospedale.lecco.it

Affiliation Internal Medicine Department, Ospedale A Manzoni, Lecco, Italy

Daniele Prati

Affiliation Department of Transfusion Medicine and Hematology, Ospedale A Manzoni, Lecco, Italy

Mirella Fraquelli

Affiliation Second Division of Gastroenterology, IRCCS Fondazione Ca Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Sergio Segato

Affiliation Gastroenterology and GI Endoscopy Unit, Azienda Ospedaliero Universitaria Macchi, Varese, Italy

Pier Paolo Vescovi

Affiliation Division of Internal Medicine, Azienda Ospedaliera "Carlo Poma", Mantova, Italy

Fabrizio Colombo

Affiliation First Division of Internal Medicine, A.O. Niguarda, Milan, Italy

Carlo Balduini

Affiliation Third Division of Internal Medicine, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo-Università degli Studi, Pavia, Italy

Serena Della Valle

Affiliation Internal Medicine Department, Ospedale A Manzoni, Lecco, Italy

Giovanni Casazza

Affiliation Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences “L. Sacco,” Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AC DP MF GC. Performed the experiments: AC SS PPV FC CB SDV. Analyzed the data: AC DP MF GC. Wrote the paper: AC DP MF GC.