Hayama, Yohsuke http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3836-2333
Shimizu, Shuji
Kawada, Toru
Negishi, Jun
Sakaguchi, Heima
Miyazaki, Aya
Ohuchi, Hideo
Yamada, Osamu
Kurosaki, Kenichi
Sugimachi, Masaru
Funding for this research was provided by:
Takeda Science Foundation
Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (18K16408)
Article History
Received: 23 March 2020
Accepted: 18 July 2020
First Online: 6 August 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate/Consent for publication
: The clinical study complied with the principles outlined in the Declaration of Helsinki and was approved by the institutional review board (M23-002, M28-018). Because the clinical study was a retrospective observational one based on data collected for routine clinical care, individual informed consent was not required. We provided all patients with the appropriate opportunity to decline consent under the opt-out method on the institutional website and bulletin board, in accordance with Japanese Ministries’ Ethical Guidelines [CitationRef removed].
: The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest.