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Authors
Sakkas, Andreas
Schulze, Johannes
Scheurer, Mario
Rana, Majeed
Kasper, Robin
Ebeling, Marcel
Schramm, Alexander
Wilde, Frank
Knitz, Marc
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Universitätsklinikum Ulm
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Article History
Received: 6 July 2025
Accepted: 24 October 2025
First Online: 13 December 2025
Declarations
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: Ethical approval for this study was obtained from the ethics committee of the University of Ulm (approval reference: 203/24, approval date: 09 July 2023). This research was conducted in full accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee as well as with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. For this non-interventional observational retrospective study, all data were also anonymized and de-identified prior to analysis. Informed written consent of the patient was waived by the ethics committee of the University of Ulm. Full compliance with data protection and safeguarding of data was ensured and no information which could identify the patients was collected. Reporting was based on the recommendations of the Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) initiative [43].
: The authors declare no competing interests.
