Tsunoda, Ryoya http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5206-0804
Usui, Joichi
Hoshino, Junichi
Fujii, Takayuki
Suzuki, Satoshi
Takaichi, Kenmei
Ubara, Yoshifumi
Yamagata, Kunihiro
Funding for this research was provided by:
Research committee of Interactive Renal Disease of the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare of Japan
Research on Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease
Practical Research Project for Renal Diseases from Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (15K08719)
Okinaka Memorial Institute
Article History
Received: 5 May 2018
Accepted: 28 August 2018
First Online: 6 September 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This research protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of Tsukuba University Hospital, institutional review board (IRB) No. H26–27. Informed consent from each patient to participate in this study was not required by the Institutional Review Board, because the study was a retrospective review of clinical records only. In place of informed consent, an announcement of this study was posted at each institute.
: Not applicable because this report does not contain data for individual patients.
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