List of author and coauthors First Name Last Name Affiliations Department or section City Country Tsutomu Sanaka Edogawa Hospital Internal Medicine Tokyo Japan Takahiro Mochizuki University of Tokyo Nephrology and Hypertension Kamogawa Japan Eriko Kinugasa Showa University Internal Medicine Yokohama Japan Eiji Kusano Jichi Medical University Nephrology Shimotsuke Japan Shigeru Ohwada Asao Clinic Dialysis Center Internal Medicine Kawasaki Japan Tsutomu Kuno Ikebukuro Kuno Clinic Internal Medicine Tokyo Japan Kenichiro Kojima Teikyo University School of Medicine Nephrology Tokyo Japan Shuzo Kobayashi Shonan Kamakura General Hospital Internal Medicine Kamakura Japan Minoru Satoh Kawasaki Medical School Nephrology and hypertension Kurashiki Japan Noriaki Shimada Koto Hospital Nephrology Tokyo Japan Kazushi Nakao Okayama University Internal Medicine Okayama Japan Ryoichi Nakazawa Tokatsu Clinic Hospital Nephrology Matsudo Japan Hideki Nishimura Tokyo Woman's Medical University Internal Medicine Tokyo Japan Eisei Noiri Kameda Medical Center Hemodilysis and Apheresis Tokyo Japan Takashi Shigematsu Wakayama Medical University Nephrology and Blood purification Medicine Wakayama Japan Tadashi Tomo Oita University Hospital Nephrology Oita Japan Teiryo Maeda Maeda Institute of Renal Research Internal Medicine Kawasaki Japan List of the physicians listed in the acknowledge in VEESA Study Group Affiliation First name Last name Showakai Hospital: Ken Kihara Bosei Akabane Clinic: Hiroshi Kita Jujo Kidney Clinic: Minoru Chimata Okayama Saiseikai General Hospital Jin Kusano Makoto Hiramatsu Keisuke Maruyama Kawashima Medical Clinic: Naofumi Yamamoto Yukigaya Sanwa Clinic: Masanori Mukai Tachibana-dai Hospital: Nobuyuki Suzuki Takekazu Shimazu Asao Clinic: Teruhiko Maeba Yasushi Kanno Shonan Kamakura General Hospital: Takayasu Ohtake Kameda General Hospital: Hiroshi Kataoka Nobuyuki Amemiya Mamiko Ohara Yoshihiko Watanabe Kenji Yamaguchi Nikko Citizen’s Hospital: Tamaki Imai Horinouchi Hospital: Kazushi Takahashi Yoshiko Shimizu Komagome Ekimae Shin Clinic: Hiroyuki Takemura Kawaguchi Rokken Clinic: Taketoshi Inokami Teraoka Memorial Hospital: Isao Kumagai Shinji Fukuda Okayama University Hospital: Kumiko Hirokoshi Hiroko Kawamoto Nobuo Kajitani Naoko Yamashita Shimodate Gastroenterology Hospital: Yoichi Akai Tsukuba Central Hospital: Takashi Ishizu Isao Tadomega Shinsen Ikebukuro Clinic: Junichiro Mera Gyotoku General Hospital: Koichi Hamaguchi Maho Ohmori Daini Eda Clinic: Fumiyoshi Nakayama Matsuyama Red Cross Hospital: Atsumi Harada Sato Clinic: Yuzuru Sato Showa University yokohama northern hospital Hidetoshi Ito Hiroaki Ogata Masahiro Yamamoto Noriyo Yoshida Akiko Takejima Yukihiro Wada Bosei Shinjuku Minamiguchi Ekimae Clinic: Toshio Takahashi Gyotoku Kidney Clinic: Yuji Koyama Kojinkai Kimachi Hospital: Emi Fujikura Masatsugu Sato Shiro Oguma Jun Urae Oita Internal Medicine Clinic: Iehisa Matsuyama Toshiba Rinkan Hospital: Mitsuko Iwasaki Mikio Wakasa Oita University Hospital: Ken Tanaka Oita Nakamura Hospital: Makoto Matsuyama Seijo Kidney Clinic: Shoko Mizuno Komae Kidney Clinic: Norio Miyabe Yujin Yamazaki Hospital: Daisuke Nagasaku Jichi Medical University: Nobuhiro Sasaki Nagahara Hospital: Masayuki Nagahara Miyamoto Clinic: Yoshihiko Nishian Takashi Miyamoto Hyogo College of Medicine: Takahiro Kuragano Sakitama Clinic: Masakazu Murayama .