Article History
Received: 4 May 2026
Accepted: 22 June 2026
First Online: 4 July 2026
Declarations
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: The study protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of Azerbaijan Medical University, Baku, Azerbaijan (Protocol No. AMU/EC-2025-047/O; approved on September 26, 2025). Due to the retrospective design of the study and the use of anonymized clinical data, the requirement for informed consent was waived by the ethics committee. All procedures performed in this study were conducted in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.