Paudel, Dhirendra https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3619-9798
Liang, Shengpeng https://orcid.org/0009-0000-1075-7080
Du, Shixu https://orcid.org/0009-0008-3167-1989
Xin, Qianqian https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4342-7974
Xu, Yan https://orcid.org/0009-0004-8652-9737
Zhou, Dan https://orcid.org/0009-0006-4988-0514
Zhang, Bin https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1303-2397
Funding for this research was provided by:
Nanfang Hospital Clinical Research Project of Southern Medical University (2021CR009)
Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (2023A1515010456)
National Key R&D Program of China (2021YFC2501500)
Article History
Received: 30 June 2025
Revised: 4 August 2025
Accepted: 15 August 2025
First Online: 28 August 2025
Declarations
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: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the ethical committee of Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Financial Disclosure: none. Non-financial Disclosure: none.
: Since this study is retrospective in nature and involves the analysis of existing anonymized data, for this type of study formal consent is not required.
: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.