Okada, Atsushi http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2080-3794
Hamamoto, Shuzo
Taguchi, Kazumi
Unno, Rei
Sugino, Teruaki
Ando, Ryosuke
Mizuno, Kentaro
Tozawa, Keiichi
Kohri, Kenjiro
Yasui, Takahiro
Funding for this research was provided by:
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology, Japan (15H04976, 15K10627, 16K11054, 16K15692, 16K20153)
Aichi Kidney Foundation
Takeda Science Foundation
Mitsui Life Social Welfare Foundation
Article History
Received: 4 August 2017
Accepted: 6 March 2018
First Online: 12 March 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The present study was carried out with the approval of our intuitional ethics committee (Nagoya City University Hospital, Approved No. 551). All patients’ written consent was obtained prior to the study.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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