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Detection of pulse rate elevation by Apple Watch in a patient with bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome after allogeneic stem cell transplantation

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Acknowledgements

We thank the patient and clinical staff at Wakayama Medical University Hospital for their participation in this study. We also would like to thank Enago (www.enago.jp) for the English language review.

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This work was supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number 19K17868 from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan.

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TM planned this study and wrote this manuscript. AN analyzed the Apple Watch data. TH and YM were involved with the treatment and the diagnostic procedure. HH, SM, and ST discussed the results and contributed to the final manuscript. TS supervised the study.

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Correspondence to Toshiki Mushino.

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This study was approved by the ethics committee of Wakayama Medical University (No. 3022). All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were carried out in accordance with the ethical standards of the relevant institutional and/or national research committees and with the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.

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Mushino, T., Nishikawa, A., Hiroi, T. et al. Detection of pulse rate elevation by Apple Watch in a patient with bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome after allogeneic stem cell transplantation. Ann Hematol 101, 897–899 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00277-021-04625-6

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