Sugi, Noriko http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2788-4024
Eguchi, Eri
Tsuboi, Ayaka
Hatanaka, Kazu
Takashiba, Shogo
Kira, Yuri
Miura, Masako
Ogino, Keiki
Hirano, Keita
Nakagawa, Takahiko
Doi, Kentaro
Article History
Received: 27 September 2021
Accepted: 7 June 2022
First Online: 27 June 2022
Declarations
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: All authors declare no conflict interest associated with this manuscript.
: This study was conducted with the Ethics Review Committee of Rakuwakai Otowa Hospital (The approval number 17-014), which was approved on Apr. 27. 2017, and the Ethics Committee of Okayama University (The approval number 1706-041), which was approved on June.16, 2017. Written informed consent was waived due to its retrospective nature. An opt-out procedure was conducted to allow patients to withdraw from the study by informing them of the study protocol on the hospital homepage website, as advised by the committee.