Karaarslan, Esma
Tire, Yasin
Tutar, Mahmut Sami
Akıncı, Nuran
Mermer, Hasan Alp
Uyar, Sami
Ateş, Dilek
Şimşek, Gürcan
Kozanhan, Betül
Article History
Received: 27 September 2024
Accepted: 8 April 2025
First Online: 16 April 2025
Declarations
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: Ethical approval was obtained from the Ethics Committee of Ankara Bilkent City Hospital (E1-23-4243; numbered and dated December 15, 2023, December) for this prospective, randomized, controlled, and double-blind study. The study protocol was registered in the international database ClinicalTrials.gov (registration no. NCT06202040), with the study starting at 2023-12-22 and completing at 2024-01-25. All patients provided written informed consent prior to their participation in the study and before any procedures were conducted. The study protocol conforms to the 2013 Declaration of Helsinki ethics guidelines.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.