Kaido, Yoshitaka
Kagabu, Masahiro https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0926-1015
Chiba, Yohei
Sato, Sho
Takatori, Eriko
Nagasawa, Takayuki
Shoji, Tadahiro
Sakurai, Manami
Shigeto, Tatsuhiko
Makino, Kenichi
Ohta, Tsuyoshi
Shigeta, Shogo
Nagai, Tomoyuki
Kaiho-Sakuma, Michiko
Watari, Hidemichi
Nagase, Satoru
Tokunaga, Hideki
Baba, Tsukasa
Yokoyama, Yoshihito
Article History
Received: 23 October 2025
Accepted: 14 January 2026
First Online: 30 January 2026
Declarations
:
: The authors have no relevant financial or nonfinancial interests to disclose.
: This retrospective study was conducted in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and national research committees and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Iwate Medical University School of Medicine (Approval No. MH2022-038; May 29, 2023). All procedures were also approved by the respective institutional review boards of the participating centers.
: The requirement for informed consent was waived by the Institutional Review Board of Iwate Medical University School of Medicine due to the retrospective nature of the study.