Pattnaik, Sandeep Abhijit https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3582-2894
Ahamed, Hisham https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1740-8948
Gutjahr, Georg https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1925-8349
Krishnakumar, Malavika
Sidharthan, Neeraj https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0115-8104
Article History
Received: 20 July 2025
Accepted: 29 September 2025
First Online: 27 October 2025
Declarations
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: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee of Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments. The study was approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee of Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi (Ethics approval number: ECASM-AIMS-2024-115).
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests relevant to the content of this article.
: The study was conducted using retrospective and prospective data from electronic medical records. For retrospective data, ethical approval was obtained with waiver of individual consent. For prospective participants, informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: Not applicable (no individual patient data or images that could identify participants are included).