Article History
Received: 7 May 2024
Revised: 15 August 2024
Accepted: 20 August 2024
First Online: 12 September 2024
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The study was conducted according to the guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Damascus University (UDDS-2038-22062020/SRC-414). All included patients, who accepted to participate in this study, signed an informed consent sheet after explaining all the details about the trial and the therapeutic part of it.