Hashimura, Takumi http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1709-7235
Onishi, Eijiro http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9936-555X
Ota, Satoshi http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7042-4293
Tsukamoto, Yoshihiro http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2311-5367
Yamashita, Shinnosuke http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9380-1146
Yasuda, Tadashi http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0846-9300
Article History
Received: 27 October 2022
Accepted: 2 March 2023
First Online: 8 March 2023
Declarations
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: Approval for this study was received from the Ethics Committee of Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital (Approval Date: Aug 5, 2021; Approval Number: zn210817). This retrospective study using anonymized data with a general opt-out procedure was approved by the institutional review board. Informed consent was waived by the Ethics Committee of Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital due to the retrospective study design. All procedures performed in this study were in accordance with the ethical standards of our institutional ethics committee, and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.