Stranger, Nikolaus
Scherkl, Mario
Ciornei-Hoffman, Andreea
Flucher, Christina
Singer, Georg
Hrzic, Franko
Mattiassich, Georg
Szolar, Dieter
Tillich, Manfred
Tschauner, Sebastian
Article History
Received: 14 August 2025
Accepted: 21 January 2026
First Online: 7 February 2026
Declarations
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: All experiments were conducted in adherence to the Declaration of Helsinki. The assessments were executed subsequent to obtaining approval from the Ethics Committee of the Medical University of Graz (Reference number 36–291 ex 23/24). Written informed consent was not necessary due to the retrospective nature of the study design. Institutional Review Board approval was obtained and the necessity for written informed consent was waived.
: We did neither publish study results (in print or electronically) nor sent the manuscript to other journals for review. There are no papers (published or under review), which duplicate parts of the work reported, or concern the same subjects as the present paper. Availability of data and materials: The datasets used and analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
: The authors declare no competing interests.