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Data supporting the trial findings are unavailable because of our institutional review board policy.

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Conflicts of interest
All authors declared that there are no conflicts of interest.

Ethical approval and consent to participate
The study was performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. The study protocol was approved
by the institutional review boards of The University of Tokyo and the Japanese Red Cross Medical Center.
We obtained written informed consent from all patients before enrollment.

Consent for publication
We obtained written informed consent from patients before enrollment.

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