Sato, Koji
Konta, Yusuke
Furuta, Kyohei
Kamizato, Kenyu
Furukawa, Akiko
Ono, Akiyuki
Ogawa, Ryo
Sato, Ryosuke
Endo, Kaoru
Yamamoto, Tae http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5101-9973
Article History
Received: 29 March 2021
Accepted: 28 September 2021
First Online: 12 November 2021
Declarations
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: All authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
: All procedures in this study involving human participants were approved by the Ethics Committee of Sendai City Hospital (approval number: Senbyousou 591, 20200113) and performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Because this was a retrospective and non-interventional study, we adopted an opt-out method instead of written informed consent. We provided patients with the opportunity to opt out by explaining the purpose of the study and the required individual data for the study by posting on the website of the Sendai City Hospital, Sendai, Miyagi 982-8502, Japan.