About the Authors

Takahiro Nakagawa

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan

Keisuke Horiuchi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

khoriuchi@ndmc.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan

Kazuki Kagami

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine I, National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan

Shinya Kondo

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan

Masashi Isaji

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan

Yusuke Matsuhashi

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan

Kazuya Kitamura

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan

Takeshi Adachi

Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine I, National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan

Kazuhiro Chiba

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Orthopedic Surgery, National Defense Medical College, Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.