Gupta, Nitin
Mukhopadhyay, Chiranjay
Kumar, Tirlangi Praveen
Salian, Kavita
Ravindra, Prithvishree
Bhat, Rachana
Van Den Broucke, Steven
Bottieau, Emmanuel
Vlieghe, Erika
Funding for this research was provided by:
Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal
Article History
Received: 28 June 2025
Accepted: 15 July 2025
First Online: 23 July 2025
Declarations
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: This study was approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee of Kasturba Medical College and Kasturba Hospital, Manipal (IEC1: 430/2023). All procedures were conducted in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Informed consent to participate was waived by the ethics committee owing to the retrospective design and use of anonymised data.
: Consent to publish was waived by the ethics committee as no identifiable patient data or images are included in this study.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The authors declare no conflicts of interest relevant to this study.