Sasaki, Takeshi
Higashi, Shinichiro
Nishikawa, Kouhei
Iinuma, Koji
Nakane, Keita
Taniguchi, Tomoki
Sano, Yuta
Matsuyama, Aika
Ozawa, Kaori
Tochigi, Kosuke
Tamura, Masataka
Kubota, Yasuaki
Akamatsu, Shusuke
Koie, Takuya
Inoue, Takahiro
Funding for this research was provided by:
Mie University
Article History
Received: 20 February 2026
Accepted: 21 June 2026
First Online: 11 July 2026
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
: The protocol for this research project received approval from the appropriately constituted ethics committee of each institution and was conducted in accordance with the provisions of the Declaration of Helsinki (Mie University Hospital Clinical Research Ethics Committee, approval no. H2023-235).
: The requirement for informed consent was waived because this was a retrospective observational study.
: Not applicable.