The authors Tatsuya Ishibashi, Nobuyuki Nishi, Masanori Kita, Satomi Uenoyama, Tomomi Nakao, Ken Takeshima, Yasushi Furukawa, Shuhei Morita, Hiroto Furuta and Taka-Aki Matsuoka declare that they have no conflicts of interest.

All the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the responsible committee on human experimentation (Wakayama Medical University Research Ethics Committee, approval number 3997, dated November 16, 2023) and the Fuchu Hospital Ethics Committee (Approval No. 2024007, date of approval: June 4, 2024) and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1964 and later versions. Informed consent or substitute for it was obtained from all the patients for being included in the study. This article does not contain any studies with animal subjects performed by any of the authors.