Kihara, Yasuhiro
Yokomizo, Hiroshi
Article History
Received: 11 March 2022
Accepted: 1 August 2022
First Online: 5 August 2022
Declarations
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: The study was conducted as per the Declaration of Helsinki (as revised in 2013) guidelines. The study was approved by the ethics board of the Japanese Red Cross Kumamoto Hospital (permission no. 374), and the requirement for informed consent was waived due to the retrospective nature of this study. We posted a summary of the trial on our website and asked eligible patients to inform us if they wished to be excluded from the study; none of the participants requested exclusion.
: Not applicable.
: All authors declare no competing interests.