Takkar, Brijesh https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5779-7645
Maddheshiya, Ankita https://orcid.org/0009-0006-0488-7499
Adhikary, Pieu https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7240-4977
Reddy, Vani Adinarayana
Majumder, Partha P. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7009-7360
Mukherjee, Souvik https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5537-3248
Das, Taraprasad https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1295-4528
,
Aggarwal, Manisha
Ahluwalia, Tejinder
Banker, Alay
Bansal, Reema
Behera, Umesh C.
Bhattacharjee, Harsha
Das, Shubhra
Gupta, Vishali
Kulkarni, Sucheta
Latif, Abdul
Luthra, Saurabh
Mishra, Divyansh
Palanivelu, Mahesh Shanmugam
Pillai, Gopal
Raman, Rajiv
Ramasamy, Kim
Roy, Rupak
Sahoo, Niroj
Sen, Alok
Sheth, Jay
Tomar, Swati
Funding for this research was provided by:
Hyderabad Eye Research Foundation
Article History
Received: 18 August 2025
Accepted: 23 February 2026
First Online: 13 March 2026
Declarations
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: The DRMS-India is registered with the Clinical Trial Registry of India (CTRI/2024/02/062511). Each participating clinical and laboratory centre obtained ethics committee approval from its respective institute. These were collated at the central driving institute (Central Clinical Coordination Center) for the final ethics committee clearance (LEC-BHR-P-07-23-1064). The study protocol adhered to the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Consent for publication is obtained from all authors.
: The authors declare no competing interests.