Hyakuda, Yoshinobu
Miyamoto, Takuma
Ogawa, Munehiro
Kawai, Akihito
Nishimura, Hiroto
Hara, Ryota
Inagaki, Yusuke
Uemura, Keisuke
Takao, Masaki
Kono, Kohei
Soufi, Mazen
Otake, Yoshito
Kawamura, Kenji
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) KAKENHI (25K23798)
Article History
Received: 27 March 2026
Accepted: 25 May 2026
First Online: 5 June 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Nara Medical University (Approval No. 4117). The requirement for written informed consent was waived because this retrospective study used anonymized clinical data. An opt-out document describing the study and its use of patient information was publicly posted on the hospital website in accordance with the institutional policy.
Consent for publication: Not applicable because no individual data or identifiable images were included in this study.
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.