Dorairaj, Prabhakar https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2218-5862
Somasundaram, Shanmugasundaram
Nesan, Sunny Anand
Mahilmaran, Asha
Sureshkumar, KP
Parthasarathy, Harikrishnan
Natarajan, Srikant https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2686-0397
Uthirapathi, Ilayaraja
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Article History
Received: 6 September 2025
Revised: 14 February 2026
Accepted: 26 February 2026
First Online: 17 March 2026
Competing interests
: All the authors do not have any conflict of interest with the present study. There is no industry sponsorship for the study.
: The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and all relevant institutional and national ethical guidelines and regulations. Ethical approval was obtained from the institutional ethics committees of Billroth Hospitals (ECR/1761/Inst/TN/2023) and Dr.Mehta’s Hospitals, Chennai (EC.MMHIPL/21/07/2021) Written informed consent was obtained from all participants prior to enrolment in the study.