Bessar, Ahmed Awad https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1921-5581
Yousef, Hazem Abu Zeid
Omar, Abdelrahman A.
Metwaly, Mohammed Salah Mohamed Ahmed
Arnaout, Mohamed Medhat Ali
Othman, Moustafa H. M.
Article History
Received: 12 June 2025
Accepted: 23 December 2025
First Online: 17 March 2026
Declarations
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: Ethical approval for the study was obtained from the Ethics Committees of the Faculty of Medicine in Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt (IRB Number: 17200713; Date: 28/4/2022). The research adhered to the ethical guidelines established by the Helsinki Declaration of 1964, as revised in October 2013.
: Informed consent was obtained from all participating patients prior to the study initiation.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.