Shinkai, Masayuki
Imano, Motohiro
Yokokawa, Masaki
Tanaka, Ryo
Matsuyama, Jin
Shimokawa, Toshio
Kawakami, Hisato
Satoh, Taroh
Yasuda, Takushi
Furukawa, Hiroshi
Article History
Received: 17 September 2024
Accepted: 25 December 2024
First Online: 15 January 2025
Ethical approval
: All procedures were performed in accordance with the ethical standards of the committee on human experimentation and with the guidelines of the Declaration of Helsinki 1964 and later versions. This study was approved by the institutional review and ethics board of each participating hospital and registered in the University Hospital Medical Information Network (UMIN) database (UMIN000008964).
: Informed consent or substitute consent was obtained from all patients included in the study.