Tsushima, Hideo
Samejima, Ken-ichi
Eriguchi, Masahiro http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8422-7314
Uemura, Takayuki
Tasaki, Hikari
Fukata, Fumihiro
Nishimoto, Masatoshi
Kosugi, Takaaki
Tanabe, Kaori
Okamoto, Keisuke
Matsui, Masaru
Tsuruya, Kazuhiko
Article History
Received: 11 September 2021
Accepted: 29 March 2022
First Online: 15 April 2022
Declarations
:
: The authors have declared that no conflict of interest exists.
: This study was approved by the Ethic Committee of Nara Medical University Hospital (Approval No. 2005-18) and registered in the University Hospital Medical Information Network Clinical Trial Registry (UMIN000031121).
: Written informed consent was not required because of the retrospective observational study design. All patients gave their “opt-out” informed consent.