Patients provided written informed consent to participate in the study and for individual patient data to be published. This study was approved by the institutional review board of Kochi Medical School, Kochi University, and registered in the Japanese clinical trial registration database (registration number: UMIN-CTR R000027833), which is accepted by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors.
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