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Article History

Received: 28 September 2023

Accepted: 21 March 2024

First Online: 12 April 2024

Declarations

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: All authors certify that they have no affiliations with or involvement in any organization 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-licensing arrangements), or nonfinancial 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 research and national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.

: This research did not involve any animal subjects.

: This research received approval from the Slovenian National Medical Ethics Committee for both the first phase of the study, in which participants were prospectively enrolled [], and the second phase which involved retrospective analysis of the ERG slopes only (No. 0120–53/2022/4). For the prospective part of the study, formal informed consent was obtained from each subject.