Nagasawa, Ryo
Hara, Yu
Murohashi, Kota
Aoki, Ayako
Kobayashi, Nobuaki
Takagi, Shigeto
Hashimoto, Satoru
Kawana, Akihiko
Kaneko, Takeshi
Article History
Received: 2 July 2020
Accepted: 9 November 2020
First Online: 25 November 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All aspects of this research were approved by the Institutional Review Board of Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine (approval numbers B170900025 and A181100007). The severely ill condition or deep sedation of ARDS and AE-ILD patients precluded us from obtaining informed consent from the patients themselves. Therefore, written informed consent was obtained from the patients’ relatives or their legal guardians. Control subjects provided written informed consent prior to participation in this study.
: Written consent for publication from the patients or their next of kin was obtained.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.