About the Authors

Saori Asada

Contributed equally to this work with: Saori Asada, Nobuhiro Nishii, Takayoshi Shinya, Akihito Miyoshi, Yoshimasa Morimoto, Masakazu Miyamoto

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

saori5712@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama city, Okayama, Japan

Nobuhiro Nishii

Contributed equally to this work with: Saori Asada, Nobuhiro Nishii, Takayoshi Shinya, Akihito Miyoshi, Yoshimasa Morimoto, Masakazu Miyamoto

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Therapeutics, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama city, Okayama, Japan

Takayoshi Shinya

Contributed equally to this work with: Saori Asada, Nobuhiro Nishii, Takayoshi Shinya, Akihito Miyoshi, Yoshimasa Morimoto, Masakazu Miyamoto

Roles Data curation

Current address: Department of Diagnostic and Therapeutic Radiology, Kawasaki Medical School General Medical Center, Okayama city, Okayama, Japan

Affiliation Department of Pediatric Radiology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama city, Okayama, Japan

Akihito Miyoshi

Contributed equally to this work with: Saori Asada, Nobuhiro Nishii, Takayoshi Shinya, Akihito Miyoshi, Yoshimasa Morimoto, Masakazu Miyamoto

Roles Data curation

Current address: Department of Cardiology, Tamashima Central Hospital, Kurashiki city, Okayama, Japan

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama city, Okayama, Japan

Yoshimasa Morimoto

Contributed equally to this work with: Saori Asada, Nobuhiro Nishii, Takayoshi Shinya, Akihito Miyoshi, Yoshimasa Morimoto, Masakazu Miyamoto

Roles Data curation

Current address: Department of Cardiology, Tsuyama Chuo Hospital, Tsuyama city, Okayama, Japan

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama city, Okayama, Japan

Masakazu Miyamoto

Contributed equally to this work with: Saori Asada, Nobuhiro Nishii, Takayoshi Shinya, Akihito Miyoshi, Yoshimasa Morimoto, Masakazu Miyamoto

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama city, Okayama, Japan

Koji Nakagawa

Roles Data curation

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama city, Okayama, Japan

Kazufumi Nakamura

Roles Data curation

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama city, Okayama, Japan

Hiroshi Morita

Roles Data curation

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Therapeutics, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama city, Okayama, Japan

Hiroshi Ito

Roles Supervision

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama city, Okayama, Japan

Competing Interests

About the competent interests, Morita H and Nishii N are affiliated with the endowed department by Japan Medtronic Inc. The remaining authors have no competing interests. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.