Perros, Ioannis https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7529-5497
Sokhal, Balamrit Singh https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2315-0744
Swift, Christopher https://orcid.org/0009-0006-8762-874X
Kitchen, Mark
Mallen, Christian https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2677-1028
Somani, Bhaskar https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6248-6478
Article History
Received: 23 May 2025
Accepted: 23 August 2025
First Online: 16 September 2025
Declarations
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: One of the co-authors, Bhaskar Somani, currently serves as an editor for the World Journal of Urology. The rest of the author(s) declare no potential conflicts of interest regarding the research, authorship and/or publication of this article.
: No ethical approval was required, as this was a meta-analysis was based solely on previously published data; therefore, review by an ethics committee was not necessary.
: As this study utilised previously published data from randomised controlled trials, human ethical approval and informed consent for participation were obtained from participants in the original studies.