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"Potential Conflicts of Interest Y.L. had a joint research with Asahi Kasei Medical Co. Ltd., which manufactures the medical equipment that is used for participants in this study. T.Y. received grant support for research from Asahi Kasei Medical Co. Ltd. K.K., Y.L., and T.Y. have a pending patent in Japan for methods to collect data for prediction of response to plasmapheresis. All the other authors report no potential conflict of interest."

"The authors are grateful to Chiharu Tomi for technical assistance. This research was supported by AMED under Grant Number JP19ek0109382; JSPS KAKENHI under Grant Number JP18K15473; Research on rare and intractable diseases, Health, Labor, and Welfare Sciences Research Grants, the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare under Grant Number H26‐nanchito(nan)‐ippan‐074, H29‐nanchito(nan)‐ippan‐043; and Intramural Research Grant (25‐4, 28‐5, 1‐5) for Neurological and Psychiatric Disorders of the National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry (NCNP), Japan."