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Ethics approval and consent to participate:
Bilal Younes, Dorothee Mielke, Charlotte Flüh, Veit Rohde, and Tammam Abboud · about 1 minutes
This retrospective chart review study involving human participants was in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The Human Investigation Committee (IRB) of University Hospital Göttingen, application number: 3/12/17 approved this study. All procedures adhered to local and institutional laws and data protection regulations. Informed consent was not required as the study was retrospective in nature and involved the analysis of previously collected data.