Furukawa, Shinya http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0041-7688
Miyake, Teruki
Yoshida, Osamu
Hanayama, Masakazu
Kitahata, Shogo
Ninomiya, Tomoyuki
Yagi, Sen
Suzuki, Seiyuu
Shibata, Naozumi
Murakami, Hidehiro
Ohashi, Katsuhisa
Shiraishi, Kana
Tange, Kazuhiro
Hashimoto, Yu
Tomida, Hideomi
Yamamoto, Yasunori
Takeshita, Eiji
Ikeda, Yoshio
Hiasa, Yoichi http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4117-339X
Article History
Received: 1 November 2023
Revised: 27 March 2024
Accepted: 2 April 2024
First Online: 8 April 2024
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: All patients in this study were informed about the study by well-trained staff and gave written informed consent. The study protocol was prepared in accordance with the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and subsequent ethical guidelines and was approved by the Ethics Committee of Ehime University School of Medicine (approval number 1505011). This study is also registered UMIN Clinical Trials Registry (000051334).