Schmidt, Andrea
Busch, Hans-Jörg
Huebsch, Lilith
Reifferscheid, Florian
Braun, Jörg
Heinrich, Sebastian
Ganter, Julian
Funding for this research was provided by:
Universitätsklinikum Freiburg
Article History
Received: 12 February 2026
Accepted: 3 August 2026
First Online: 6 August 2026
Declarations
Ethics Approval: The trial was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg (No: 25-1272-S1, August 19th 2025) and registered with the German Register of Clinical Studies (No: DRKS00037729, August 19th 2025). This study was conducted in accordance with the ethical principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. Informed consent was not required for this retrospective study, as only anonymized data were used, and the study was approved by the appropriate ethics committee.
Consent to participate: Not applicable.
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.
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