Fukuda, Hitoshi http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3803-8242
Hamada, Fumihiro
Nonaka, Motonobu
Ueba, Yusuke
Fukui, Naoki
Kurosaki, Yoshitaka
Morioka, Jun
Koyanagi, Masaomi
Nakajima, Norio
Uezato, Minami
Yasuda, Takaya
Chin, Masaki
Yamagata, Sen
Murao, Kenichi
Yamada, Keisuke
Ohta, Tsuyoshi
Lo, Benjamin
Ueba, Tetsuya
Article History
Received: 11 June 2021
Accepted: 19 August 2021
First Online: 27 August 2021
Declarations
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: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The study protocol was approved by the Kochi University Hospital Research Ethics Committee (Kochi, Japan) (#31–13), and waiver of consent was sought and obtained for this observational study with no unique patient identifiers.
: The authors declare no competing interests.