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Authors
Steinkirchner, Felix M. https://orcid.org/0009-0009-0897-1729
Kaufmann, Christina K. https://orcid.org/0009-0003-3970-6027
Kraus, Richard F. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5280-6530
Käss, Maximilian https://orcid.org/0009-0000-4641-4311
Schieffer, Elisabeth
Graf, Bernhard M.
Lassen, Christoph https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6647-1882
Kimmerling, Viktoria https://orcid.org/0009-0000-8609-0286
Dejaco, Alexander https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1985-2102
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Universitätsklinikum Regensburg
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Article History
Received: 26 April 2026
Accepted: 13 July 2026
First Online: 16 July 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: This study was conducted in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations, including the Declaration of Helsinki. It received approval from the Ethics Committee of the University of Regensburg (advisory review under § 15 of the Professional Code for Physicians in Bavaria; reference 25-4271-101), which raised no ethical or legal objections. For this retrospective analysis of routinely collected, de-identified clinical data, individual informed consent was not required under Art. 27 para. 4 sentence 1 of the Bavarian Hospital Act (BayKrG), which permits the use of routinely collected patient data within the hospital for research.
Consent for publication: Not applicable.
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.
