Yamanoi, Tomoaki
Sekito, Takanori
Tokunaga, Moto
Tsuboi, Ichiro
Yoshinaga, Kasumi
Maruyama, Yuki
Kawada, Tatsushi
Kubota, Risa
Tominaga, Yusuke
Sadahira, Takuya
Katayama, Satoshi
Iwata, Takehiro
Nishimura, Shingo
Bekku, Kensuke
Onishi, Yasuhiro
Takeuchi, Hidemi
Tanabe, Katsuyuki
Morinaga, Hiroshi
Wada, Koichiro
Araki, Motoo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3172-2482
Funding for this research was provided by:
Okayama University
Article History
Received: 15 February 2026
Accepted: 20 April 2026
First Online: 26 May 2026
Declarations
:
: None of the authors have any conflicts of interest associated with this study.
: This study was approved by the Okayama University Institutional Review Board (registration number: 1911—030) and complied with the Declaration of Helsinki and current ethical guidelines. Written consent was waived because of the study’s retrospective nature, and patients provided consent via an opt-out approach.