Takehara, Tomohiro
Nishida, Hayato https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8045-551X
Ichikawa, Kazunobu
Nawano, Takaaki
Takai, Satoshi
Fukuhara, Hiroki
Matsuura, Tomohiko
Maita, Shinya
Saito, Mitsuru
Murakami, Reiichi
Hatakeyama, Shingo
Obara, Wataru
Saitoh, Hisao
Ohyama, Chikara
Habuchi, Tomonori
Watanabe, Masafumi
Tsuchiya, Norihiko
Article History
Received: 25 June 2024
Accepted: 12 October 2024
First Online: 25 October 2024
Declarations
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: The authors have declared that no conflict of interest exists.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of Iwate Medical University (authorization number: MH2019-162) and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. We adopted an opt-out consent approach in line with ethical guidelines. Patient data were anonymized, and any personally identifiable information was removed in accordance with applicable regulations.
: This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors.