Obata, Shumpei https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6120-2392
Matsumoto, Riko
Kakinoki, Masashi
Sawada, Osamu
Sawada, Tomoko
Saishin, Yoshitsugu
Yanagi, Takahide
Maruo, Yoshihiro
Ohji, Masahito
Article History
Received: 24 May 2022
Revised: 26 September 2022
Accepted: 4 November 2022
First Online: 15 November 2022
Declarations
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: All procedures performed in this study involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board/Ethics Committee of Shiga University of Medical Science (Otsu, Japan). For this study, an opt-out consent process was used at Shiga University of Medical Science Hospital after approval by the Institutional Review Board.
: The authors declare no competing interests.