Kanaji, Nobuhiro http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7365-4927
Ichihara, Eiki
Tanaka, Takaaki
Ninomiya, Takashi
Kozuki, Toshiyuki
Ishikawa, Nobuhisa
Nishii, Kazuya
Shoda, Hiroyasu
Yamaguchi, Kakuhiro
Kawakado, Keita
Toyoda, Yuko
Inoue, Masaaki
Miyatake, Nobuyuki
Watanabe, Naoki
Inoue, Takuya
Mizoguchi, Hitoshi
Komori, Yuta
Kojima, Kazuki
Kadowaki, Norimitsu
Article History
Received: 24 October 2023
Accepted: 23 December 2023
First Online: 24 January 2024
Declarations
:
: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.
: This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Kagawa University (no. 2022-117) and Japanese Red Cross Kochi Hospital (no. 432) and obtained permission to conduct the study from each participating institute. All procedures performed in the study involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: We obtained appropriate informed consent for the use of patient information through an opt-out form or a written form because of the retrospective nature of the study.