Matsuura, Toshiyuki
Kaneko, Hiroki http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0731-6465
Takayama, Kei
Shibata, Rei
Kataoka, Keiko
Ito, Seina
Tsunekawa, Taichi
Shimizu, Hideyuki
Suzumura, Ayana
Namba, Rina
Ito, Yasuki
Murohara, Toyoaki
Terasaki, Hiroko
Funding for this research was provided by:
Grants-in-Aid for Young Scientist B (17K16964)
Japan Foundation for Applied Enzymology (n/a)
The Eye Research Foundation for the Aged (n/a)
Takeda Science Foundation (n/a)
Article History
Received: 2 April 2019
Accepted: 6 February 2020
First Online: 18 February 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: We conducted this cross-sectional study in accordance with the guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki; the protocol was registered to the Clinical Trial Registry of UMIN (Registered number UMIN000032946, Registered date: Jun 11th, 2018) and approved by the Nagoya University Hospital Ethics Review Board (Number 2012–0340-4). We obtained written informed consent from all participating patients.
: We obtained written informed consent from all participating patients for using the images for the publication on the condition of anonymity.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.