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DECLARATIONS
Authors’ contributions
Data acquisition, conceptualization, manuscript writing, and critical revision of the manuscript:
Parthasarathi R, Gupta GR, Sabnis SC, Raj PP, Senthilnathan P, Rajapandian S, Palanivelu C.
All authors contributed equally for the manuscript.

Availability of data and materials
Not applicable.

Financial support and sponsorship
None.

Conflicts of interest
All authors declared that there are no conflicts of interest.

Ethical approval and consent to participate
In-hospital GEM ethic’s committee has approved this study. The ethical committee has approved a waiver
of consent given the retrospective nature of the study. All efforts are made to keep the individual patient’s
identity anonymous.

Consent for publication
Not applicable.

Copyright
© The Author(s) 2019.

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