Radfar, Amirreza
Kazerooni, AmirAli Rastegar
Masoudi, Mohammad Sadegh
Zakeri, MohammadReza
Article History
Received: 21 May 2025
Accepted: 8 June 2026
First Online: 15 June 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences (approval code: IR.SUMS.MED.REC.1400.519). All procedures were conducted in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the Declaration of Helsinki. At the time of hospital admission, patients provided general written consent for the use of their anonymized clinical information for research purposes. Given the retrospective nature of the study and the use of anonymized routinely collected data, the Ethics Committee waived the requirement for additional study-specific informed consent.
Consent for publication: Not applicable.
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.