Tumanova, Kseniia https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4106-3596
Khorasani, Mohammadali
Nofech-Mozes, Sharon https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5450-9986
Vitkin, Alex
Funding for this research was provided by:
Gouvernement du Canada | Canadian Institutes of Health Research (PJT-156110, PJT-156110)
Gouvernement du Canada | Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (RGPIN-2018-04930, RGPIN-2018-04930)
New Frontiers in Research Fund
Article History
Received: 18 December 2024
Revised: 14 July 2025
Accepted: 4 August 2025
First Online: 3 October 2025
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: Institutional ethics approval was obtained from University Health Network and Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto, Canada, with a waiver of patient consent due to the study’s retrospective design and anonymized data. All methods were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations.
: Not applicable. This study uses de-identified retrospective data, and the requirement for patient consent for publication was waived by the ethics boards.