Farahmand, Faramarz
Kouhi, Ehsan
Karajizadeh, Mehrdad
Rezaei, Hooman
Article History
Received: 18 April 2026
Accepted: 14 July 2026
First Online: 20 July 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: Research Ethics Committees of School of Medicine - Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz , Iran (Approval No. IR.SUMS.MED.REC.1403.802) have approved this study. All procedures performed in this study involving human participants were conducted in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the Declaration of Helsinki. Because this was a retrospective registry-based study using existing anonymized data, the requirement for informed consent was waived by the Research Ethics Committee.
Consent for publication: Not applicable.
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.