Nakajima, Koji https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0016-5361
Nakamoto, Hideki
Nakarai, Hiroyuki
Nagata, Kosei
Kato, So
Doi, Toru
Matsubayashi, Yoshitaka
Taniguchi, Yuki
Kawamura, Naohiro
Higashikawa, Akiro
Takeshita, Yujiro
Fukushima, Masayoshi
Ono, Takashi
Hara, Nobuhiro
Azuma, Seiichi
Tanaka, Sakae
Oshima, Yasushi https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4495-1134
Article History
Received: 15 March 2021
Revised: 17 April 2021
Accepted: 2 May 2021
First Online: 18 May 2021
Declarations
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: No benefits in any form have been or will be received from a commercial party related directly or indirectly to the subject of this manuscript. The manuscript submitted does not contain information about medical device (s)/drug (s).
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee (institutional review board of the Clinical Research Support Center of the University of Tokyo Hospital, Japanese Red Cross Medical Center, Kanto Rosai Hospital, Yokohama Rosai Hospital, Toranomon Hospital, Japan Community Health-care Organization Tokyo Shinjuku Medical Center, Japanese Red Cross Musashino Hospital, and Japanese Red Cross Saitama Hospital) and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.