Tanaka, Takehiro
Oriyama, Toyohito
Yamamoto, Takehito
Kimura, Saori
Fujii, Alice
Tauchi, Riri
Shirai, Kyoko
Taguchi, Satoru
Kawai, Taketo
Kume, Haruki
Takada, Tappei
Funding for this research was provided by:
The University of Tokyo
Article History
Received: 7 May 2026
Accepted: 22 July 2026
First Online: 28 July 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: The protocol for this single center retrospective observational study was approved by the ethics committee of the faculty of medicine, the University of Tokyo (Approval number: 2529). The institutional review board granted an opt-out recruitment approach and waived the need for obtaining written informed consent from each patient. We strictly adhered to the Declaration of Helsinki and its latest amendment.
Consent for publication: Not applicable.
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.