Sayed Ahmed, Hazem A. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4922-8706
Mohamed, Samar F.
Joudeh, Anwar I.
Elotla, Sally Fawzy
Mostafa, Mona
Shah, Jaffer
Fouad, Ahmed Mahmoud
Abdelazim, Samy Abdelrazek
Article History
Received: 18 June 2024
Accepted: 9 January 2025
First Online: 27 January 2025
Declarations
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: The authors declare no conflict of interest.
: This research is a subset of a broader study, which received ethical approval from the Research Ethics Committee at the Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt (Ref No. 4277, dated August 24, 2020). All participants provided written informed consent before joining the study.
: All procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and the Helsinki Declaration of 1964 and later versions.
: Informed consent was obtained from all patients for being included in the study.