“…After removing duplicates, applying the eligibility criteria, screening the articles, and reviewing the full texts, we included 43 articles with a total of 16,408 patients (Fig. 1) [1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 14, 17, 18, 19, 22, 23, 25, 28, 31, 35, 36, 38, 39, 42-45, 48, 50, 52-55, 56-60, 63, 64, 65-68, 69, 70]. The median (range) maximum follow-up time for all studies was 20 months (0.75 to 68).…”