Hosokawa, Kohei
Sugimori, Chiharu
Ishiyama, Ken
Takamatsu, Hiroyuki
Noji, Hideyoshi
Shichishima, Tsutomu
Obara, Naoshi
Chiba, Shigeru
Ninomiya, Haruhiko
Shirasugi, Yukari
Nakamura, Yoshihiko
Ando, Kiyoshi
Ueda, Yasutaka
Yonemura, Yuji
Kawaguchi, Tatsuya
Nishimura, Jun-ichi
Kanakura, Yuzuru
Nakao, Shinji
Article History
Received: 19 November 2017
Accepted: 13 July 2018
First Online: 24 July 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
: All human subjects were collected after obtaining written informed consent for their participation in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki through clinical protocols approved by the Institutional Review Board.
: Dr. Ninomiya, Dr. Shichishima, Dr. Yonemura, Dr. Kawaguchi, and Dr. Nakao report personal fees from Alexion Pharma G.K., outside the submitted work; Dr. Ninomiya, Dr. Chiba, Dr. Ueda, Dr. Yonemura, and Dr. Nakao report grants from Alexion Pharma G.K., outside the submitted work; Dr. Kanakura and Dr. Nishimura report grant and personal fees from Alexion Pharma G.K. during the conduct of the study; Dr. Shirasugi report honoraria from Novartis; Dr. Hosokawa, Dr. Sugimori, Dr. Ishiyama, Dr. Takamatsu, Dr. Noji, Dr. Obara, Dr. Nakamura, and Dr. Ando have nothing to declare.