Otsuru, Mitsunobu
Omori, Keisuke
Hasegawa, Takumi
Yamamura, Yoshiko
Kondo, Eiji
Ueda, Nobuhiro
Soutome, Sakiko
Rokutanda, Satoshi
Ueda, Masamichi
Nakahara, Hirokazu
Ishibashi, Kenichiro
Iwata, Eiji
Yamasaki, Sachiko
Sado, Tomohiro
Myoken, Yoshinari
Sakamoto, Yuki
Kobayashi, Masashi
Hamana, Tomoaki
Kojima, Yuka
Kanda, Taku
Sumi, Misa
Taguchi, Akira
Umeda, Masahiro
Article History
Received: 7 August 2025
Accepted: 9 October 2025
First Online: 17 November 2025
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Nagasaki University Hospital (approval number: 22080804) and was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and the Ethical Guidelines for Medical and Biological Research Involving Human Subjects issued by the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare of Japan..
: In accordance with Japanese law, individual informed consent was not required for this non-invasive observational study. All patient-identifiable information was removed, and an opt-out option was provided by publishing the research plan on the websites of the participating hospitals, as instructed by the Institutional Review Board of Nagasaki University Hospital.