Miwa, Hiromi https://orcid.org/0009-0005-4785-7452
Hayakawa, Naoki
Tsurumaki, Toshiki
Tsuchida, Yasuyuki
Inoue, Masanao
Ichihara, Shinya
Kushida, Shunichi
Article History
Received: 9 April 2026
Accepted: 1 July 2026
First Online: 16 July 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: All procedures were performed in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committees and the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The study protocol was approved by the ethics committee of Asahi General Hospital.
Consent for publication: Not applicable.
Competing interests: N. H. is a consultant for Reflow Medical and received honoraria from Terumo, Kaneka Medix, Medicos Hirata, Boston Scientific, Medtronic, Reflow Medical, SIEMENS, Cordis, Abbot Vascular, and Becton, Dickinson and Company. The other authors declare that they have no competing interests.