Wu, Shuting
Yuan, Xiaofei
Huang, Haoran
Li, Yanfei
Cui, Linchong
Lin, Danfan
Lu, Wenxuan
Feng, Huiru
Chen, Zilu
Liu, Xiong
Tan, Jiajie
Wang, Fan
Funding for this research was provided by:
Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation of Guangzhou, Guangdong, China (2023A04J2366)
Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province (2020A1515010176)
Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation of Guangdong Province (2020A1515110638)
National Natural Science Foundation of China (81902774)
Basic and Applied Basic research Foundation of Guangzhou (SL2022A04J02047)
Article History
Received: 11 June 2023
Accepted: 28 November 2023
First Online: 9 December 2023
Declarations
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: This retrospective study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Nanfang Hospital of Southern Medical University (Ethical review approval no.: NFEC-2017–165). However, a few patients we followed up came from different provinces in China, were faraway or had died, which made it impossible to obtain the relevant consent from these patients. We consulted the ethics committee of our hospital, they agreed us to query relevant data in the case system to conduct a retrospective study. Ethics Committee of Nanfang Hospital of Southern Medical University waived the need of informed consent to participate. Because there was no privacy and tissue samples or blood samples in this study. All methods were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.