Tanizawa, Kiminobu
Handa, Tomohiro
Kubo, Takeshi
Chen-Yoshikawa, Toyofumi F.
Aoyama, Akihiro
Motoyama, Hideki
Hijiya, Kyoko
Yoshizawa, Akihiko
Oshima, Yohei
Ikezoe, Kohei
Tokuda, Shinsaku
Nakatsuka, Yoshinari
Murase, Yuko
Nagai, Sonoko
Muro, Shigeo
Oga, Toru
Chin, Kazuo
Hirai, Toyohiro
Date, Hiroshi
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JP25860642, JP16K09534, JP26461187)
Japan Intractable Diseases Research Foundation
Ms. Mieko Sonoda Memorial Research Fund for Interstitial Lung Diseases
Article History
Received: 16 January 2018
Accepted: 13 August 2018
First Online: 30 August 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The ethics committee of Kyoto University Hospital approved this study (E1355). Written informed consent from study subjects was waived because of the retrospective design.
: Not applicable.
: The Department of Respiratory Care and Sleep Control Medicine at Kyoto University is funded by endowments from Philips Respironics, Teijin Pharma Ltd., Fukuda Denshi Inc., and Fukuda Lifetec Keiji. The authors themselves have no conflicts of interest to disclose.
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