Tamachi, Tomoko
Kohno, Takeya
Yamamoto, Manabu
Hirayama, Kumiko
Kyo, Akika
Ueda, Nobuhiko
Hirabayashi, Michiko
Shiraki, Kunihiko
Honda, Shigeru
Article History
Received: 5 June 2020
Accepted: 3 October 2020
First Online: 15 October 2020
Funding
: No funding or sponsorship was received for this study or publication of this article.
: The authors thank Forte Science Communications (Tokyo, Japan) for editorial support.
: All named authors meet the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) criteria for authorship for this article, take responsibility for the integrity of the work as a whole, and have given their approval for this version to be published.
: Presented in part at: Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology Annual Meeting, May 2017, Baltimore, MD, USA.
: Dr. T. Kohno reports lecture fees or honoraria, travel fees or reimbursements from Novartis, Bayer, Santen, and Senjyu outside of the submitted work. Dr. M. Yamamoto reports lecture fees or honoraria, travel fees or reimbursements from Novartis, Bayer, Santen, Alcon, and Senjyu outside of the submitted work. Dr. S. Honda reports lecture fees or honoraria, travel fees or reimbursements from Novartis, Bayer, Santen, Alcon, and Senjyu outside of the submitted work. Tomoko Tamachi, Kumiko Hirayama, Akika Kyo, Nobuhiko Ueda, Michiko Hirabayashi and Kunihiko Shiraki declare no conflict of interest.
: The Ethics Committee of the Osaka City University Hospital Institutional Review Board approved this study. (No. 2019-s062) All patients provided written, informed consent for the treatment. The study adhered to the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: All authors had full access to all of the data in this study and take complete responsibility for the integrity of the data and accuracy of the data analysis. The datasets generated and/or analyzed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.