Acknowledgements
We sincerely thank the participating patients and their families. We are indebted to the physicians and all other medical staff. We also thank Ms. Sakamoto and the staff at Clinical Research Support Center (CReS), Kyushu for their excellent data collection and management, secretarial assistance, and support. Editorial support in medical writing, assembling tables, creating high-resolution images based on authors’ detailed directions, collating author comments, copyediting, fact checking, and referencing, was provided by Editage, Cactus Communications.