Elaziz, Mohamed Momtaz A. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0170-4205
Gamal, Sherif M. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2663-4111
Fayed, Ahmed http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6041-4016
Abu-Zaid, Mohammed Hassan http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8436-8598
Ghoniem, Shada A. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3338-7585
Teleb, Doaa A. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8712-6914
Funding for this research was provided by:
Cairo University
Article History
Accepted: 13 May 2023
First Online: 15 August 2023
Declarations
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: M.M.A. Elaziz, S.M. Gamal, A. Fayed, M.H. Abu-Zaid, S.A. Ghoniem, and D.A. Teleb declare that they have no competing interests.
: <i>Compliance with ethical standards:</i> All steps were performed according to the revised ethical principles of the Declaration of Helsinki in 2000, and local ethical and methodological protocols for approval of the study were followed. <i>Ethics approval and consent to participate: </i>This study is in agreement with the ethical guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki and it follows the ethical standards of the Tanta Faculty of Medicine, with the institutional ethics board approval number 34997/10/21. Privacy of all patient data was granted, as there was a code number for every patient’s file that included all investigations. <i>Consent for publication: </i>The final manuscript has been read and approved by all authors, they have obtained the required ethical approvals, they have given the necessary attention to ensure the integrity of the work, and agreed to publish this work.