Itamoto, Kota
Kumamaru, Hiraku
Aikou, Susumu
Yagi, Koichi
Yamashita, Hiroharu
Nomura, Sachiyo
Miyata, Hiroaki
Kuroda, Shinji
Fujiwara, Toshiyoshi
Endo, Shunsuke
Kitagawa, Yuko
Kakeji, Yoshihiro
Seto, Yasuyuki
Funding for this research was provided by:
The Health Science and Labor Research Grants
Article History
Received: 19 July 2021
Accepted: 10 October 2021
First Online: 11 February 2022
Declarations
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: KI, HK, SA, KY, HY, SN, HM, SK, TF, SE, YK, YK, and YS have no conflicts of interest or financial ties to disclose regarding the submitted work.
: All procedures followed in this study were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (institutional and national) and with the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and later versions. The Institutional Review Board of the University of Tokyo Hospital approved this study (2019033NI).
: Informed consent for this analysis was based on the informed opt-out procedure because of the retrospective nature of the study and anonymous clinical data were used for the analysis.