Retraction to: Irish Journal of Medical Science (1971 -) (2021) 191:187-193 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11845-021-02560-z

The Editor in Chief has retracted this article after an investigation by the publisher found evidence of attempts to subvert the peer review process. Additionally, the authors did not provide evidence of ethics approval matching that described in the article. The article also contains overlaps with a previously published paper by different authors [1]. All authors disagree to this retraction.