Utsumi, Masashi
Inagaki, Masaru
Kitada, Koji
Tokunaga, Naoyuki
Yonoki, Kosuke
Sakurai, Yuya
Okabayashi, Hiroki
Hamano, Ryosuke
Miyasou, Hideaki
Tsunemitsu, Yousuke
Otsuka, Shinya
Article History
Accepted: 15 February 2024
First Online: 26 February 2024
Declarations
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: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the National Hospital Organization Fukuyama Medical Center, Fukuyama, Hiroshima, Japan (No. ERB2022027).
: The requirement for written informed consent was waived owing to the retrospective nature of the study.
: The authors declare no competing interests.