Mazoni Costa, Rachel https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8462-806X
Horta, Manuela https://orcid.org/0009-0000-8693-0054
Tunes de Paula, André
da Costa, Taynna Ferreira Arantes
de Bessa, José Jr
Nahas, William Carlos
Gomes, Cristiano Mendes
Article History
Received: 3 September 2025
Revised: 20 March 2026
Accepted: 29 April 2026
First Online: 13 May 2026
Ethical approval
: This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB Approval N° 86965218.3.0000.0068). Written informed consent was obtained from all participants.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: Preliminary results of this study were presented at the 39th Brazilian Congress of Urology (CBU), 2023, Salvador, BA, Brazil.
: No external funding.
: During the preparation of this work, the authors used OpenAI’s ChatGPT (GPT-5) to assist with language editing, grammar refinement, formatting, and figure generation. The authors reviewed and edited the content and take full responsibility for the publication.