Iguchi, Nobuo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5046-3463
Utanohara, Yuko
Suzuki, Yasuhiro
Suzuki, Makoto
Hagiya, Kenichi
Higuchi, Ryosuke
Takamisawa, Itaru
Tobaru, Tetsuya
Sumiyoshi, Tetsuya
Isobe, Mitsuaki
Funding for this research was provided by:
Sakakibara Clinical Research Grant for Promotion of Science
Article History
Received: 16 December 2017
Accepted: 16 April 2018
First Online: 20 April 2018
Compliance with ethical standards
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: Nobuo Iguchi and Yuko Utanohara have received honorariums from Biosensors Japan. Yasuhiro Suzuki is a consultant of Biosensors Japan. The other authors declare no conflicts of interest regarding the publication of this paper.
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The study protocol was approved by the in-house ethics committee of the Sakakibara Heart Institute.