Kitadani, Junya https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2150-0253
Hayata, Keiji
Goda, Taro
Tominaga, Shinta
Fukuda, Naoki
Nakai, Tomoki
Nagano, Shotaro
Hanada, Keisuke
Kawai, Manabu
Article History
Received: 7 August 2025
Accepted: 11 January 2026
First Online: 4 February 2026
Declarations
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: Junya Kitadani, Keiji Hayata, Taro Goda, Shinta Tominaga, Naoki Fukuda, Tomoki Nakai, Shotaro Nagano, Keisuke Hanada, and Manabu Kawai declare no competing interests.
: This study was approved by the Wakayama Medical University Institutional Review Board (approval number 3291). All procedures were undertaken in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration of 1964 and later versions. All patients provided written informed consent in accordance with guidelines.