Rhee, Elisa
Dobrila, Julija
Kaur, Harmanpreet
Patel, Mehul D.
Uppu, Santosh C.
Article History
Received: 20 March 2023
Accepted: 25 September 2023
First Online: 20 October 2023
Declarations
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: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This study was approved by The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and Memorial Hermann Institutional Review Board (HSC-MS-20-0153, March 9<sup>th,</sup> 2020) and waived the need for informed consent. All human studies at the University of Texas at Houston Health Science Center and Memorial Hermann hospital have to go through rigorous review by the ethics committee and have therefore been performed in accordance with the ethical standards laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments. The subjects were deidentified as per our IRB guidelines. Due to the retrospective nature, this study does not require contacting subjects as such a waiver of consent was requested and was approved by the IRB.