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Authors
Matsui, Chihiro
Tanaka, Takakuni
Arai, Go
Arai, Toshihiro
Sasaki, Masashi
Escandón, Joseph M.
Tachibana, Kiyomi
Mizuno, Hiroshi
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
JSPS KAKENHI (23K15464, 24K11797)
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Article History
Received: 8 January 2026
Revised: 12 March 2026
Accepted: 16 March 2026
First Online: 9 April 2026
Declarations
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: This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of Toyooka Public Hospital (Approval No. 241). Because only anonymized retrospective data were analyzed, the requirement for written informed consent was waived by the IRB. All procedures were conducted in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.
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: The authors did not use generative AI in the preparation of this manuscript.
: The authors received no commercial compensation related to this study.
: This study has not been presented at any national or international meeting.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
