Shimamoto, Yuki https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0606-3569
Takeda, Asami
Futamura, Kenta
Ienaga, Ayano
Himeno, Tomoki
Hasegawa, Yuki
Okada, Manabu
Hiramitsu, Takahisa
Miwa, Yuko
Narumi, Shunji
Watarai, Yoshihiko
Kobayashi, Takaaki
Article History
Received: 14 July 2026
Accepted: 29 August 2026
First Online: 11 September 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the Japanese Red Cross Aichi Medical Center, Nagoya Daini Hospital (approval number 1688; Nagoya, Aichi, Japan) and conducted in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. Living-donor KT was performed in accordance with the Declaration of Istanbul. Owing to the noninvasive study design and the use of anonymized patient data, the requirement for informed consent was waived.
Consent for publication: Written informed consent was obtained from the patient shown in Fig. .
Competing interests: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.