Teraishi, Fuminori https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5133-2644
Takahashi, Ryusei
Okabayashi, Hiroki
Utsumi, Masashi
Miyaso, Hideaki
Shoji, Ryohei
Fujiwara, Toshiyoshi
Mitsuhashi, Toshiharu
Inagaki, Masaru
Funding for this research was provided by:
Okayama University
Article History
Received: 30 May 2025
Accepted: 27 July 2025
First Online: 28 August 2025
Declarations
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: All authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: All procedures conducted in this study adhered to the ethical standards established by our institutional research committee, as well as the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its subsequent amendments, or comparable ethical standards. This research received approval from the review board of Okayama University Hospital (approval No. 2004-028). Informed consent was obtained from all study participants.
: This study did not involve any new interventions in human participants or the use of animals. The analyses were based exclusively on retrospectively collected clinical data. Therefore, statements regarding research involving human participants and/or animals are not applicable.