Fukunaga, Masaaki https://orcid.org/0009-0004-8805-3955
Ichikawa, Shota https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4275-1422
Ichijiri, Koki
Ito, Osamu
Moriya, Takafumi
Yamaguchi, Yuki
Funding for this research was provided by:
Nemoto Kyorin-do (Nemoto Kyorin-do (JP))
Article History
Received: 21 June 2025
Revised: 23 November 2025
Accepted: 30 November 2025
First Online: 19 January 2026
Declarations
:
: The authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose.
: This retrospective chart review study involving human participants was in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The Institutional Review Board (IRB) of Kurashiki Central Hospital approved this study (No.3727).
: For this type of study, the requirement for individual informed consent was waived by the Institutional Review Board of Kurashiki Central Hospital.