Al-Amad, Suhail H.
AbuOdeh, Raed O.
Nair, Vidhya Anish
Abdel-Rahman, Wael M.
Funding for this research was provided by:
o This research was funded by the Competitive Research Grant from the University of Sharjah (1801100136, 1801100136)
Article History
Received: 14 April 2025
Accepted: 15 July 2025
First Online: 24 July 2025
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This study was reviewed and approved by both the University of Sharjah Research Ethics Committee (approval number REC-19-11-25-01) and the Hospital Ethics and Research Committee of the University Hospital Sharjah (approval number UHS-HERC-114-12102022). Both ethics committees have granted waiver of informed consent for this study since it is a retrospective study on archival material. All methods were carried out in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki 1964 and its later amendments.