Tsuchimoto, Akihiro
Matsukuma, Yuta
Ueki, Kenji
Nishiki, Takehiro
Doi, Atsushi
Okabe, Yasuhiro
Nakamura, Masafumi
Tsuruya, Kazuhiko
Nakano, Toshiaki https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9235-5615
Kitazono, Takanari
Masutani, Kosuke
Article History
Received: 25 January 2018
Accepted: 17 July 2018
First Online: 2 August 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The clinical and research activities of the study were consistent with the principles of the Declaration of Istanbul, as outlined in the Declaration of Istanbul on Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism. Informed consent was acquired from the participant included in the study.
: The authors have no conflict of interest to declare.
: Ethical Approval: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee at which the studies were conducted (IRB approval number #24–54) and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.