Saito, Takuro http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1733-5064
Kurokawa, Yukinori http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2883-0132
Fujitani, Kazumasa
Kawabata, Ryohei
Takeno, Atsushi
Mikami, Jota
Endo, Shunji
Matsuyama, Jin
Akamaru, Yusuke
Hirota, Masashi
Kishi, Kentaro
Urakawa, Shinya
Yamamoto, Kei
Tanaka, Koji
Takahashi, Tsuyoshi http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2397-1478
Oka, Mikio
Wada, Hisashi http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5444-6193
Eguchi, Hidetoshi
Doki, Yuichiro
Article History
Received: 11 April 2023
Revised: 18 November 2023
Accepted: 1 December 2023
First Online: 7 February 2024
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: Before the study was initiated it was approved by the Osaka University Clinical Research Review Committee and the institutional review boards of all 21 participating Japanese hospitals. All patients provided written informed consent before enrollment. We registered this study in the UMIN Clinical Trials Registry (UMIN-CTR) (UMIN000007925). The UMIN-CTR is one of the network members of the Japan Primary Registries Network that fulfills the World Health Organization (WHO) registry criteria. This study was performed in accordance with the international ethical recommendations documented in the Declaration of Helsinki and the Japanese Ethical Guidelines for Clinical Research.
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