Kitamura, Mineaki http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0003-8645
Tateishi, Yohei
Sato, Shuntaro
Ota, Yuki
Muta, Kumiko
Uramatsu, Tadashi
Izumo, Tsuyoshi
Mochizuki, Yasushi
Harada, Takashi
Funakoshi, Satoshi
Matsuo, Takayuki
Tsujino, Akira
Sakai, Hideki
Mukae, Hiroshi
Nishino, Tomoya
Funding for this research was provided by:
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (19K17747)
Article History
Received: 19 September 2019
Accepted: 3 January 2020
First Online: 14 January 2020
Compliance with ethical standards
:
: All the authors have declared no competing interest.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee at which the studies were conducted (Nagasaki University Hospital IRB approval number 1602221-3, Nagasaki Renal Center IRB approval number 30001) and with those of the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Although participants in this study were informed, the study was a retrospective survey and the data of participants were anonymized. Consequently, the IRBs approved the waiver of written informed consent from patients.