Kitano, Masataka https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0894-982X
Yazaki, Satoshi
Sugiyama, Hisashi
Ohtsuki, Shin-ichi
Tomita, Hideshi
Article History
Received: 7 September 2019
Accepted: 5 November 2019
First Online: 16 November 2019
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: All the authors declare that he has no conflict of interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the ethics committee of the National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendment or comparable ethical standards.
: The ethics committee approved the waiver of informed consent by providing the patients with the opportunity to opt-out.