Article History
Received: 3 June 2025
Accepted: 3 August 2025
First Online: 12 August 2025
Declarations
:
: All the authors have declared no competing interests. This study did not receive any funding.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the Ethical Review Committees of Sendai Hospital, Kameda Medical Center, and Akita University Hospital (approval numbers: al 2024–2, 24–022, and 3191, respectively), the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments, and Japan’s Ethical Guidelines for Medical and Health Research Involving Human Subjects. This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors.
: Information regarding this study was made available online, allowing patients the choice to opt out if they did not wish their data to be used for research purposes.