Fernando, Meranthi https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7162-3748
Tillakaratne, Suchintha
Gunathilake, Bhagya
Withanage, Rachini
Liyanage, Chamila
Weerasuriya, Aruna
Appuhamy, Chinthaka
Ganewatte, Eranga
Ranaweera, Liyanage
Herath, Pamalee
Siriwardana, Rohan
Article History
Received: 13 January 2026
Accepted: 25 June 2026
First Online: 29 June 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: Consent was obtained from all of the participants, or their parents was informed prior to the study. The study was a retrospective record-based study. Hence institutional approval had been obtained. Consent had been obtained from parents of all participants and assent had been obtained from participants when they were above 12 years. at the enrolment to the clinical database to us data for research.Name of the institution which provided the approval– Colombo North Teaching Hospital, Ragama We state that our research was conducted in response to Helsinki Declaration
Consent for publication: Not applicable.
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.