About the Authors

Carmela Cosola

carmela.cosola@uniba.it

Affiliation Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation – Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation Unit, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy

Maria De Angelis

Affiliation Department of Soil, Plant and Food Sciences, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy

Maria Teresa Rocchetti

Affiliation Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation – Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation Unit, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy

Eustacchio Montemurno

Affiliation Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation – Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation Unit, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy

Valentina Maranzano

Affiliation Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation – Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation Unit, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy

Giuseppe Dalfino

Affiliation Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation – Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation Unit, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy

Carlo Manno

Affiliation Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation – Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation Unit, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy

Annapaola Zito

Affiliation Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation - Cardiovascular Disease Unit, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy

Michele Gesualdo

Affiliation Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation - Cardiovascular Disease Unit, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy

Marco Matteo Ciccone

Affiliation Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation - Cardiovascular Disease Unit, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy

Marco Gobbetti

Affiliation Faculty of Science and Technology, Free University of Bozen, Bolzano, Italy

Loreto Gesualdo

Affiliation Department of Emergency and Organ Transplantation – Nephrology, Dialysis and Transplantation Unit, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CC MDA GD M. Gobbetti LG. Data curation: CC. Formal analysis: CC MTR EM CM. Funding acquisition: MDA GD M. Gobbetti LG. Investigation: MDA MTR EM VM AZ M. Gesualdo. Methodology: CC GD. Project administration: CC MDA GD. Resources: MDA MMC M. Gobbetti LG. Supervision: CC GD LG. Validation: CC MTR EM. Visualization: CC EM. Writing – original draft: CC MTR EM VM AZ M. Gesualdo. Writing – review & editing: CC MTR MDA GD CM MMC LG.