Yoshikawa, Masaaki
Inoue, Yukako
Tanaka, Koya
Tsumura, Keisuke
Hoshino, Yuki
Shichijo, Chika
Ide, Toshihiro
Suzuyama, Kohei
Iwasaki, Megumi
Eriguchi, Makoto
Yukitake, Motohiro
Takashima, Hiroshi
Koike, Haruki https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4612-3183
Article History
Received: 4 March 2025
Accepted: 3 April 2025
First Online: 21 April 2025
Declarations
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: Haruki Koike is a member of the Editorial Board of Neurology and Therapy. Haruki Koike was not involved in the selection of peer reviewers for the manuscript nor any of the subsequent editorial decisions. Masaaki Yoshikawa, Yukako Inoue, Koya Tanaka, Keisuke Tsumura, Yuki Hoshino, Chika Shichijo, Toshihiro Ide, Kohei Suzuyama, Megumi Iwasaki, Makoto Eriguchi, Motohiro Yukitake, and Hiroshi Takashima have nothing to disclose.
: This study was performed in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration of 1964 and its later amendments and the Ethical Guidelines for Medical and Health Research Involving Human Subjects endorsed by the Japanese government. The study protocol was reviewed and approved by the Ethics Review Committees of the Faculty of Medicine, Saga University (2023-11-R-09), Saga-ken Medical Center Koseikan (24-08-20-01), Karatsu Red Cross Hospital (24I-0801-016), and Takagi Hospital (KR269-1). As a result of the retrospective nature of this study using anonymized data from medical records, opt-out consent, in which participants were provided information about this study and enrolled unless they actively opted out, was applied.