∗Department of Surgery and Transplantation, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany
†Department of Surgery, Campus Charité Mitte | Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
‡Department of Transplantation Surgery, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic
§Department of General, Visceral, and Transplant Surgery, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Munich, Germany
||Department of HPB Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK
¶University College London, London, UK
#Department of Hepatology, Maastricht University Medical Center (MUMC), Maastricht, The Netherlands
∗∗Department of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany
††Institute for Laboratory Animal Science and Experimental Surgery, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany
‡‡Institute for Biometry and Clinical Epidemiology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Charité Mitte, Berlin, Germany
§§Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Campus Charité Mitte | Campus Virchow-Klinikum, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
||||Department of General, Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Germany
¶¶Department of General Surgery and Liver transplantation, Fundeni Clinical Institute, Bucharest, Romania
##Department for General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
∗∗∗Department of Anesthesiology, McGovern Medical School, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX.
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Trial Registration: clinicaltrials.gov (NCT03124641).
Study protocol: BMJ open. 2017 Oct 10;7(10):e017558 (PMID: 29018070).
Funding: This research project was supported by the START-Program (#136/17 to G.L. and #23/19 to Z.C.) and the Clinician Scientist Program (to Z.C.) of the Faculty of Medicine, RWTH Aachen University and by the Excellence Initiative of the German federal and state governments (G:(DE-82) ZUK2-SF-OPSF443 to G.L.) without involvement of the funders in study design, data collection, data analysis, manuscript preparation or decision to publish. P.S. is supported by the German Research Foundation grant STR1095/6–1 (Heisenberg professorship).
Disclosure: G.L. reports receiving travel support from Astellas Pharma and Organ Assist, outside the submitted work. Z.C. reports receiving travel support from Astellas Pharma, outside the submitted work.
The authors report no conflicts of interest.
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