About the Authors

Tsuyoshi Takashima

takashim@cc.saga-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Saga University Faculty of Medicine, Saga, Japan

Tomoya Kishi

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Saga University Faculty of Medicine, Saga, Japan

Koji Onozawa

Affiliation Department of Nephrology, Ureshino Medical Center, Ureshino, Japan

Shuichi Rikitake

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Saga University Faculty of Medicine, Saga, Japan

Motoaki Miyazono

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Saga University Faculty of Medicine, Saga, Japan

Takateru Otsuka

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Saga University Faculty of Medicine, Saga, Japan

Hiroyuki Irie

Affiliation Department of Radiology, Saga University Faculty of Medicine, Saga, Japan

Ryuichi Iwakiri

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Saga University Faculty of Medicine, Saga, Japan

Kazuma Fujimoto

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Saga University Faculty of Medicine, Saga, Japan

Yuji Ikeda

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Saga University Faculty of Medicine, Saga, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TT TK MM RI KF YI. Performed the experiments: TT TK KO SR. Analyzed the data: TT TK YI. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TT TK TO HI YI. Wrote the paper: TT YI.