Nagano, Nobuo https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6527-3286
Tagahara, Ayaka
Shimada, Takahito
Miya, Masaaki
Tamei, Noriko
Muto, Shigeaki
Tsutsui, Takaaki
Saito, Daiki
Itami, Shusaku
Ogawa, Tetsuya
Ito, Kyoko
Article History
Received: 16 May 2024
Accepted: 8 July 2024
First Online: 7 August 2024
Declarations
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: Consultancies and Honoraria: Nobuo Nagano (Kyowa Kirin Co., Ltd). The other authors have declared that no conflict of interest exists.
: All procedures in studies involving human participants were performed in accordance with the ethical standards of the Hidaka Hospital Medical Ethics Committee (approval number: 384) and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. This study did not include any animal studies performed by any of the authors.
: All authors gave consent for publication to the journal.
: This study was a retrospective analysis of medical records. Individual informed consent was not required because some of the patients had died or been transferred to other hospitals by the time of application to the institutional ethics committee.