Morimoto, Yasuhiro
Matsui, Hiroki
Fujioka, Haruka
Homma, Yuya
Nagai, Tatsuya
Otsuki, Ayumu
Ito, Hiroyuki
Ohmura, Shin-ichiro
Miyamoto, Toshiaki
Shichi, Daisuke
Watari, Tomohisa
Otsuka, Yoshihito
Nakashima, Kei
Article History
Received: 22 July 2024
Accepted: 29 October 2024
First Online: 2 November 2024
Declarations
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: The study protocol was approved by the research ethics committee at each participating centre: the Research Ethics Committee of Kameda Medical Center (#21-069-230801), the Institutional Review Board and Ethics Committee of Seirei Hamamatsu General Hospital (#3584), and the Ethics Committee of Seirei Mikatahara General Hospital (#21–58). As this was a retrospective study and patient data were anonymised, the requirement for written informed consent was waived. This was also approved by the ethics committees.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: The authors have completed the STROBE reporting checklist () (submitted as a supplementary file).