Article History
Received: 24 September 2018
Accepted: 6 June 2019
First Online: 13 June 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was approved by the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Bioethics Committee. The patients had previously given written informed consent for use of their data from medical records in clinical research conducted in the Hospital of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences with the right to withdraw their consent at any time, thus, written consent from the patients or their relatives for participation in this study specifically was not obtained.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.