Aziz, Ahmed Eid https://orcid.org/0009-0000-5733-7606
Khalil, Ahmed H.
Abdelnasser, Ahmed
Elmonim, Ahmed Maher Abd
Article History
Received: 19 February 2026
Accepted: 24 April 2026
First Online: 9 June 2026
Declarations
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: The study protocol was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University (Approval No: MS-358-2024) and retrospectively registered with ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT07401082). All procedures performed in this study involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments. All participants provided written informed consent prior to enrollment.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.