1 Digestive Disease and Surgery Institute, Transplant Center, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH.
2 Division of Transplantation, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH.
3 Transplant Center, Cleveland Clinic Weston, Weston, FL.
4 Division of Transplantation Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI.
5 Transplantation Institute, University of Chicago Medicine, Chicago, IL.
Received 5 January 2021. Revision received 21 May 2021.
Accepted 13 June 2021.
A.N. and L.C.H. contributed equally to this work.
This study was supported with a research grant from Sanofi.
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
Clinicaltrials.gov number: NCT02544113.
B.E., J.J.F., and S.S. participated in research design. A.N., B.E., K.S., and L.C.H. participated in writing the article. J.J.F., K.H., J.B., T.L.K., S.S., C.M.M., X.Z., and M.Z. participated in critical review. B.E., A.N., and K.S. participated in data analysis. B.E., L.C.H., S.S., T.L.K., X.Z., M.Z., C.Q., F.A., M.F., T.D., K.H., and J.B. participated in enrollment, patient care, and follow-up.
Correspondence: Bijan Eghtesad, MD, Department of Surgery, Division of Transplant and Hepatobiliary Surgery, Digestive Disease and Surgery Institute, Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Ave, Post Code A-100, Cleveland, OH 44195. ([email protected]).
