Chung, Chiwook
Lee, Kyu Na
Han, Kyungdo
Shin, Dong Wook
Lee, Sei Won
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Research Foundation of Korea (2023R1A2C2006688)
Bio&Medical Technology Development Program of the National Research Foundation (2022M3A9G8017220)
Article History
Received: 22 March 2024
Accepted: 6 September 2024
First Online: 30 September 2024
Competing interests
: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. The funder did not have any role in the design of the study, in the data collection, analysis, interpretation or in writing the manuscript.
: This study protocol was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea (IRB No. 2023–0367). The requirement for informed consent was waived, because it was a retrospective study using anonymized data. This study complied with the guidelines stipulated in the Declaration of Helsinki. All methods were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines.