Koyama, Taku
Tanaka, Atsushi
Yoshida, Hisako
Oyama, Jun-ichi
Toyoda, Shigeru
Sakuma, Masashi
Inoue, Teruo
Otsuka, Yoritaka
Node, Koichi
Article History
Received: 26 October 2017
Accepted: 2 February 2018
First Online: 9 February 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: TK, AT, and HY have no financial interests to disclose related to this manuscript. JO has belonged to the research program faculty (chair course) sponsored by Fukuda Denshi. ST and MS have no financial interests to disclose related to this manuscript. TI has received honoraria from Mochida and Bayer; and scholarships from Abbott, KAATHU JAPAN, GOODMAN, CLINICO, Shionogi, St. Jude Medical, Daiichi Sankyo, Takeda, Mitsubishi Tanabe, Teijin, Boehringer Ingelheim, Boston Scientific Japan, and UNION TOOL. YO has no financial interests to disclose related to this manuscript. KN has received honoraria from Daiichi Sankyo, Merck, Pfizer, Eli Lilly, Amgen, Boehringer Ingelheim, Mitsubishi Tanabe, and Astellas; research funding from Bayer, Teijin, Mitsubishi Tanabe, Astellas, Boehringer Ingelheim, and Asahi Kasei; and scholarships from Astellas, Daiichi Sankyo, Sumitomo Dainippon, Takeda, Mitsubishi Tanabe, and Boehringer Ingelheim.