Selvan, Abarna https://orcid.org/0009-0009-8310-5759
Subhash, Varshini https://orcid.org/0009-0008-2306-4863
Jose, Rajesh https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2116-2821
Sukumaran, Sheejamol Velickakathu https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4184-1119
Krishna, Neethu https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1834-8086
Radhakrishnan, Rohik Micka https://orcid.org/0009-0003-4590-3342
Gopal, Kirun https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9622-4230
Varma, Praveen Kerala https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3978-2874
Article History
Received: 4 March 2025
Revised: 5 August 2025
Accepted: 6 August 2025
First Online: 20 November 2025
Declarations
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: The institutional ethics committee approved the study on 28 February 2025 with IEC no. ECASM-AIMS-2025–116.
: The need for informed consent was waived by the Institutional Ethics Committee of Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, as the study involved retrospective analysis of anonymized data.
: All procedures performed in this study were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration (as revised in 2013) and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Authors 7 and 8 are in the editorial board of IJTC. The other authors declare no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.