Krishnan, Shyam Sundar
Nigam, Pulak
Mohanty, Poonam
Vasudevan, Madabhushi Chakravarthy
Kameswaran, Mohan
Article History
Received: 12 March 2018
Accepted: 13 May 2018
First Online: 8 June 2018
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: All authors certify that they have no affiliations with or involvement in any organisation or entity with any financial interest (such as honoraria; educational grants; participation in speakers’ bureaus; membership, employment, consultancies, stock ownership, or other equity interest; and expert testimony or patent-licencing arrangements), or non-financial interest (such as personal or professional relationships, affiliations, knowledge or beliefs) in the subject matter or materials discussed in this manuscript.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee (Institutional Ethics Committee, Voluntary Health Services Multi-speciality Hospital & Research Centre, Chennai) and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.