Otsuki, Sou https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6366-4221
Hatakeyama, Masahiro
Kimura, Atsushi Michael
Nakamura, Kosei
Ratanov, Mikhail
Akagawa, Rie
Furuse, Hironori
Suzuki, Naomasa
Ikami, Yasuhiro
Hasegawa, Yuki
Chinushi, Masaomi
Shimada, Hitoshi
Inomata, Takayuki
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JP23H02825, JP22K16132)
Article History
Received: 19 January 2025
Accepted: 1 April 2025
First Online: 14 April 2025
Declarations
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: The authors have no relevant financial or non financial interests to disclose.
: This study was approved by the Ethics committee of Niigata University (9 August 2024/2024-0064) and was conducted under the guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki and in compliance with the Ethical Guidelines for Medical and Health Research Involving Human Subjects. Information concerning the implementation of the research, including the handling of existing specimens or information, and research implementation was made public, with opportunities provided for patients to withdraw from the study. Ethics committee of Niigata University considered that these activities met the criteria for ensuring patient consent and waived the need for written informed consent. We used the opt-out method because of the retrospective nature of the study.
: Informed consent from all individual participants included in the study was waived by the ethics committee of Niigata University.