Yasuda, Hideto http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3153-1595
Sekine, Kosuke
Abe, Takayuki
Suzaki, Shinichiro
Katsumi, Atsushi
Harada, Naoshige
Higashi, Hidenori
Kishihara, Yuki
Suzuki, Hidetaka
Takebayashi, Toru
Funding for this research was provided by:
Toray Medical
Article History
Received: 10 September 2017
Accepted: 16 January 2018
First Online: 21 February 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study protocol was approved by the local ethics committee at Japanese Red Cross Musashino Hospital named Clinical Research Judging Committee.
: Informed consent was obtained from all the participants or their surrogate decisionmakers.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
: Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.