From the *Liver Support Unit, Department of Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA; †Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY; ‡UCLA Transplant Center, University of California, Los Angeles, CA; §Division of Abdominal Transplant Surgery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC; ¶University of Alabama Liver Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL; ∥Liver Transplant Program, University of California, San Francisco Medical Center, San Francisco, CA;**Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, University Hospital Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; ††Cliniques Universitaires Saint Luc, Brussels, Belgium; ‡‡Mayo Medical School, Liver Transplant Unit, Rochester, MN; §§Centro Trapianto di Fegato, Azienda Ospedaliera S. Giovanni Battista, Torino, Italy; ¶¶Section of Hepatology, Rush-Presbyterian–St Luke's Medical Center, Chicago, IL; ∥∥Universitair Zeikenhaus Gent, Gent, Belgium; ***Department of General and Transplantation Surgery, University of Essen, Essen, Germany; †††Department of Medical and SurgicalSciences, University of Padova, Padova, Italy; ‡‡‡Liver Unit, Intensive Care Unit, Hospital Clinic Provincial de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; §§§Liver Transplant Program, Oregon Health & Sciences University, Portland, OR; ¶¶¶Liver Transplant, Department of Hepatogastroenterology, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; ∥∥∥New England Medical Center, Division of Gastroenterology, Boston, MA; ****Liver Unit of the Digestive Disease Service, University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Spain; ††††Division of Transplant Surgery, Medical College of Ohio, Toledo, OH;‡‡‡‡Hepatology/Liver Transplantation, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO; §§§§Averion, Inc., Framingham, MA; and ¶¶¶¶Circe Biomedical, Inc, Lexington, MA.
Reprints: Achilles A. Demetriou, MD, PhD, Department of Surgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 8700 Beverly Blvd, Suite 8215, North Tower, Los Angeles, CA 90048. E-mail: [email protected].