About the Authors

Takahisa Hiramitsu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft

thira@nagoya2.jrc.or.jp

Affiliation Department of Transplant and Endocrine Surgery, Nagoya Daini Red Cross Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Toshihide Tomosugi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Transplant and Endocrine Surgery, Nagoya Daini Red Cross Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Manabu Okada

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Transplant and Endocrine Surgery, Nagoya Daini Red Cross Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Kenta Futamura

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

Affiliation Department of Transplant and Endocrine Surgery, Nagoya Daini Red Cross Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Norihiko Goto

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Transplant and Endocrine Surgery, Nagoya Daini Red Cross Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Shunji Narumi

Roles Methodology, Project administration

Affiliation Department of Transplant and Endocrine Surgery, Nagoya Daini Red Cross Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Yoshihiko Watarai

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Transplant and Endocrine Surgery, Nagoya Daini Red Cross Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Yoshihiro Tominaga

Roles Supervision, Validation

Affiliation Department of Transplant and Endocrine Surgery, Nagoya Daini Red Cross Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Toshihiro Ichimori

Roles Supervision, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Transplant and Endocrine Surgery, Nagoya Daini Red Cross Hospital, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.