Lee, Cho-Rong
Suh, Jungyo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3867-4778
Jang, Dongjun
Jin, Bo-Yeong
Cho, Jaeso
Lee, Moses
Sim, Hyungtai
Kang, Minyong
Lee, Jueun
Park, Ju Hyun
Lee, Kyoung-Hwa
Hwang, Geum-Sook http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1600-1556
Moon, Kyung Chul
Song, Cheryn
Ku, Ja Hyeon
Kwak, Cheol
Kim, Hyeon Hoe
Cho, Sung-Yup
Choi, Murim http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9195-1455
Jeong, Chang Wook
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ministry of Health and Welfare (HA17C0039)
Seoul National University Hospital (2620150050)
Korea Basic Science Institute (C170200)
National Research Foundation of Korea (2014M3C9A2064686, 2021R1A2C3008021)
Article History
Received: 12 November 2023
Revised: 14 May 2024
Accepted: 19 May 2024
First Online: 1 August 2024
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Our study protocol was approved by the Institutional Review Boards of Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH; C-1509-031-702) and Asan Medical Center (2016-1252), tertiary referral hospitals in Korea. Written informed consent was obtained from the patients. The requirement for informed consent was waived for patients who underwent nephrectomy before February 2013 and who either died or could not be followed up with.
: The authors declare no competing interests.