Fukuda, Naoki
Ojima, Toshiyasu
Hayata, Keiji
Katsuda, Masahiro
Kitadani, Junya
Takeuchi, Akihiro
Goda, Taro
Ueda, Yoko
Iwakura, Hiroshi
Nishi, Masahiro
Yamaue, Hiroki
Article History
Received: 11 December 2021
Accepted: 7 February 2022
First Online: 19 February 2022
Declarations
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: Drs. Naoki Fukuda, Toshiyasu Ojima, Keiji Hayata, Masahiro Katsuda, Junya Kitadani, Akihiro Takeuchi, Taro Goda, Yoko Ueda, Hiroshi Iwakura, Masahiro Nishi, and Hiroki Yamaue have no conflicts of interest or financial ties to disclose.
: This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board at the Wakayama Medical University Hospital (WMUH) (Approval Number 2318).
: Informed consent was obtained from all patients in accordance with the guidelines of the WMUH Ethics Committee on Human Research.
: All research has been performed in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1964 and later versions. The study protocol was registered in the University Hospital Information Network Center in Japan (UMIN000034438).