Nagai, Tatsuya
Inoshima, Naoki
Matsui, Hiroki
Kubota, Norihiko
Funaki, Yoshihiro
Otsuki, Ayumu
Ito, Hiroyuki
Nakashima, Kei
Article History
Received: 28 October 2025
Accepted: 6 July 2026
First Online: 16 July 2026
Declarations
Consent for publication: Not applicable.
Ethics approval and consent to participate: This study is a retrospective cohort study and not a clinical trial. Therefore, the clinical trial number is not applicable. The study protocol received approval from the Research Ethics Committee of Kameda Medical Center (#24-067). Given the retrospective nature of the study and the anonymization of patient data, the requirement for written informed consent was waived by the Research Ethics Committee of Kameda Medical Center.
Competing Interests: The authors declare no competing interests.