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Abhishek Patil1 \* and Isha Sood2

1 DNB (Rheumatology), Manipal Hospitals, Bangalore, India

2 DNB (Rheumatology), Nanavati Superspeciality Hospital, Mumbai, India

\*Address all correspondence to: abhishekpatilkims@gmail.com

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