Kitamura, Mineaki http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0003-8645
Tateishi, Yohei
Sato, Shuntaro
Kitamura, Satoko
Ota, Yuki
Muta, Kumiko
Yamashita, Hiroshi
Uramatsu, Tadashi
Obata, Yoko
Mochizuki, Yasushi
Nishikido, Masaharu
Izumo, Tsuyoshi
Harada, Takashi
Funakoshi, Satoshi
Matsuo, Takayuki
Tsujino, Akira
Sakai, Hideki
Mukae, Hiroshi
Nishino, Tomoya
Funding for this research was provided by:
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (19K17747)
Article History
Received: 23 November 2018
Accepted: 28 May 2019
First Online: 7 June 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved by the ethics committees of Nagasaki University Hospital (Nagasaki, Japan) (1602221–2) and Nagasaki Renal Center (Nagasaki, Japan) (30001). The ethics committees waived the requirement for written consent due to the retrospective record-based design.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.