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Article History

Received: 26 July 2024

Accepted: 22 November 2024

First Online: 5 December 2024

Declarations

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: The present study was approved by the IRB Málaga Provincial Clinical Research Ethics Committee (project code EBR-SED-2017-1). Given the retrospective nature of the study and the adequate dissociation of the deceased patients’ personal data, the need for consent to participate was waived by this Ethics Committee. This decision was based on national regulations (Royal decree 957/2020 and Personal data protection Law 3/2018). The provisions of the Declaration of Helsinki, revised in 2013, regarding ethical principles for research on human beings, were fully complied with throughout this study.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare no competing interests.