Kazuyoshi Ishii, MD, MPH, PhD1, Shosaku Nomura, MD, PhD1, Shinya Fujita, MD, PhD1*, Atushi Satake, MD, PhD2*, Tomoki Ito, MD, PhD1*, Yuta Katayama, MD, PhD3*, Taiichi Kyo, MD, PhD4*, Shuichi Ota, MD, PhD5, Masanori Seki, MD, PhD6*, Shigeru Chiba, MD, PhD6, Yoshinobu Maeda, MD, PhD7, Mitsune Tanimoto, MD, PhD7, Takayuki Ikezoe, MD. PhD8, Hideo Yagi, MD, PhD9, Kunio Hayashi, MD, PhD10, Yoji Ishida, M.D., Ph.D.11, Naohito Fujishima, MD, PhD12, Kenichi Sawada, M.D., Ph.D.13, Masaya Okada, MD, PhD14* and Hiroyasu Ogawa, MD, PhD14
1First Department of Internal Medicine, Kansai Medical University, Osaka, Japan
2First Department of Internal Medicine, Kansai Medical University, Hirakata, Japan
3Internal Medicine, Hiroshima Red Cross Hospital & Atomic-bomb Survivors Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan
4Department of Internal Medicine, Hiroshima Red Cross and Atomic Bomb Survivals Hospital, Hiroshima, Japan
5Department of Hematology, Sapporo Hokuyu Hospital, Sapporo, Japan
6Department of Clinical and Experimental Hematology, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan
7Department of Hematology and Oncology, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Okayama, Japan
8Department of Hematology and Respiratory Medicine, Kochi University School of Medicine, Nankoku, Japan
9Department of Hematology, Kinki University School of Medicine Nara Hospital, Ikoma, Japan
10Department of Hematology, Meiwa General Hosipital, Nishinomiya, Japan
11Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, Iwate Medical University School of Medicine, Morioka, Japan
12Department of Hematology, Nephrology and Rheumatology, Akita University School of Medicine, Akita, Japan
13Department of Hematology, Nephrology and Rheumatology, Akita University, Akita, Japan
14Department of Hematology, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Japan