Kitano, Takaya
Todo, Kenichi
Yoshimura, Shinichi
Uchida, Kazutaka
Yamagami, Hiroshi
Sakai, Nobuyuki
Sakaguchi, Manabu
Nakamura, Hajime
Kishima, Haruhiko
Mochizuki, Hideki
Ezura, Masayuki
Okada, Yasushi
Kitagawa, Kazuo
Kimura, Kazumi
Sasaki, Makoto
Tanahashi, Norio
Toyoda, Kazunori
Furui, Eisuke
Matsumaru, Yuji
Minematsu, Kazuo
Morimoto, Takeshi
Article History
Received: 17 October 2019
Accepted: 3 March 2020
First Online: 18 March 2020
Competing interests
: Dr. Todo reports lecture fees from Medtronic. Dr. Yoshimura reports research grants from Medico’s Hirata, Medtronic, and Termo and lecturer fees from Medtronic, Kaneka and Stryker. Dr. Yamagami discloses lecturer fees from Jimro, Medico’s Hirata, Medtronic, Terumo, and Stryker. Dr. Sakai reports a research grant from Termo, lecturer fees from Jimro, Johnson & Johnson, Medico’s Hirata, Medtronic, and Stryker, and membership of the advisory boards for Jimro and Medtronic. Dr. Nakamura reports lecture fee from Johnson & Johnson, Medtronic, and Stryker. Dr. Kimura reports lecture fee from Medtronic. Dr. Matsumaru discloses lecturer fees from Medtronic, Stryker, Terumo, Johnson & Johnson, Kaneka and Jimro. Dr. Minematsu reports lecture fees from Stryker and membership of the advisory board from Medico’s Hirata. The other authors report no conflicts.