Hirotsugu Okuma, Nobutaka Noto, Masataka Kato, Masataka Ito, Erina Nakahara, Syuntaro Tanigawa, Maiko Hirai, Hiroshi Yagasaki, Motoaki Chin, Ichiro Morioka (Nihon University School of Medicine, Tokyo Japan)

Hsiu Mei Huang¹, Tzu-Ying Lee² (1.Nursing school, National Taipei university of Nursing and health sciences, Taipei City, Taiwan, 2.Nursing school, National Taipei university of Nursing and health sciences, Taipei City, Taiwan)

Bruno Neuner¹, William McCarthy², Henning Krampe¹, Hartmut Clausnizer³, Ulrike Nowak-Goettl³ (1.Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Charite Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Federal Republic of Germany, 2.University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), Center for Cancer Prevention and Control Research, Fielding School of Public Health and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, United States of America, 3.Institute for Clinical Chemistry and Coagulation Center, University Hospital Schleswig Holstein, Luebeck & Kiel, Kiel, Federal Republic of Germany)

Eri Takada¹, Hideko Goto², Michio Sawada³, Hisashi Tsurumi⁴ (1.Department of Hematology, Gihoku Kosei Hospital, 2.Department of Hematology, Chuno Kosei Hospital, 3.Department of Hematology, Gifu Red Cross Hospital, 4.Department of Hematology, Matsunami General Hospital)

Hiroyoshi Ichihara¹, Shoji Ine¹, Yusuke Kizawa¹, Shiro Koh¹, Tadanobu Ohta², Yoshio Furukawa², Kumiyo Nakai¹, Yasutaka Aoyama³, Atsuko Mugitani¹ (1.Hematology, Seichokai Fuchu-Hospital, Osaka, Japan, 2.General Medicine, Seichokai Fuchu-Hospital, Osaka, Japan, 3.Aoyama Clinic, Osaka, Japan)

Shinya Yamamoto, Satomi Okada, Shuku Sato, Emiko Kanbe, Yotaro Tamai (Hematol,,shonan kamakura General Hospital.,Kanagawa prefecture,Japan)