Oi, Issei
Fujita, Kohei
Imakita, Takuma
Okada, Yuta
Yoshimura, Saiki
Fujimoto, Naoki
Toyama, Shogo
Watanabe, Atsuko
Ito, Takanori
Kaku, Ryosuke
Kanai, Osamu
Ohuchi, Masatsugu
Noguchi, Tetsuo
Tsukino, Mitsuhiro
Sawai, Satoru
Tanizawa, Kiminobu
Article History
Received: 24 October 2025
Accepted: 15 December 2025
First Online: 19 December 2025
Declarations
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: This study was conducted in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration and approved by the Ethical Review Committee of Kyoto Medical Center (aprpoved number 23 − 022), and relevant committees of each institution, and informed consent was obtained without requiring written consent from patients by providing an opportunity for opt-out as this was a retrospective review of patient data, and patient identifiers were removed from the final data set.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.