Timofte-Zorila, Mihaela-Madalina
Lixi, Filippo
Vlas, Nicoleta
Troisi, Mario
Özkan, Gamze
Pavel-Tanasa, Mariana
Istrate, Sinziana
Preda, Cristina
Coco, Giulia
Namazbayeva, Assem
Giannaccare, Giuseppe https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2617-0289
Branisteanu, Daniel Constantin
Article History
Received: 15 July 2025
Accepted: 6 August 2025
First Online: 24 August 2025
Declarations
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: Mihaela-Madalina Timofte-Zorila, Filippo Lixi, Nicoleta Vlas, Mario Troisi, Gamze Özkan, Mariana Pavel-Tanasa, Sinziana Istrate, Cristina Preda, Giulia Coco, Assem Namazbayeva, Giuseppe Giannaccare and Daniel Constantin Branisteanu declare no conflict of interest. Patients were not involved in the design of the study or the dissemination of the results.
: The study was approved by the local Ethics Committee of the Cai Ferate Clinical Hospital of Iasi, Romania (approval number: 54/29.07.2024) and retrospectively registered at ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT07067294) on 05.07.2025. All procedures performed in the study involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments. Written informed consent was obtained from all participants prior to inclusion in the study.