Hirobata, Tomonao
Inaba, Hidefumi http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7718-734X
Kaido, Yosuke
Kosugi, Daisuke
Itoh, Saya
Matsuoka, Takaaki
Inoue, Gen
Article History
Received: 8 December 2021
Accepted: 27 March 2022
First Online: 13 April 2022
Declarations
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: The authors have no competing interests to disclose.
: The study protocol was approved by the Japanese Red Cross Wakayama Medical Center Ethics Committee (No. 680, April 30. 2019), and all participants had the opportunity to opt-out of research. The necessity for written informed consent from each patient was waived in this retrospective study. We used clinical information obtained in routine clinical practice, and no patients refused to participate in the study. All procedures were in accordance with the institutional ethical standards regarding human experimentation and with the Declaration of Helsinki, as revised in Fortaleza, Brazil in October 2013.