Ghaderkhani, Sara
SeyedAlinaghi, SeyedAhmad
Farhadi, Kousha https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4123-225X
Abbasian, Ladan
Abdollahi, Alireza
Hasannezhad, Malihe
Dehghan Manshadi, Seyed Ali
Rajabi, Erta https://orcid.org/0009-0001-8061-5675
Article History
Received: 11 October 2024
Accepted: 22 March 2025
First Online: 3 April 2025
Declarations
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: This study was approved by the ethics committee of Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. All methods were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations. This study was conducted in an academic teaching/research hospital (Imam Khomeini Hospital Complex affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences). In this academic center, all patients or their legal guardians are initially explained that their information and possible samples will be anonymously collected, reviewed, and reported in educational and research projects. The patients who give written consent to this issue will be included in the mentioned studies (like our study). Patients are allowed to freely choose whether or not their data be used in an anonymized database. Informed consent was obtained from all the patients and/or their legal guardian(s) for this study. This study was approved with ethics code: IR.TUMS.IKHC.REC.1402.128.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.