About the Authors

Kamran B. Lankarani

Contributed equally to this work with: Kamran B. Lankarani, Seyed Ali Malek-Hosseini

lankaran@sums.ac.ir, lankarani@mohme.gov.ir

Affiliation Health Policy research center, Shiraz university of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran

Seyed Ali Malek-Hosseini

Contributed equally to this work with: Kamran B. Lankarani, Seyed Ali Malek-Hosseini

Affiliation Shiraz Transplant Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran

Saman Nikeghbalian

Affiliation Shiraz Transplant Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran

Mohsen Dehghani

Affiliation Pediatric Gastroenterology and Hepatology Department, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Islamic republic of Iran

Mohammad Pourhashemi

Affiliation Health Policy research center, Shiraz university of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran

Kourosh Kazemi

Affiliation Shiraz Transplant Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran

Parisa Janghorban

Affiliation Shiraz Transplant Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran

Maryam Akbari

Affiliation Health Policy research center, Shiraz university of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran

Sulmaz Ghahramani

Affiliation Health Policy research center, Shiraz university of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran

Bijan Eghtesad

Affiliation Transplant Center, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Maryam Moini

Affiliation Gastroenterohepatology Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical sciences, Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran

Abbas Rahmi Jaberi

Affiliation Shiraz neurology research center, Shiraz University of Medical sciences, Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran

Alireza Shamsaifar

Affiliation Shiraz Transplant Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran

Siavosh Gholami

Affiliation Shiraz Transplant Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran

Fatemeh Rahmanian

Affiliation Gastroenterohepatology Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical sciences, Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran

Bita Geramizadeh

Affiliation Shiraz Transplant Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: KBL SAMH BE. Data curation: SGh PJ SG MA. Formal analysis: SGh MA MP MM FR. Investigation: KBL SAMH SN MD MP KK PJ MA SGh BE MM ARJ ASh SG FR BG. Methodology: KBL SAMH BE SN KK. Project administration: KBL SAMH. Resources: KBL SAMH. Software: SGH MA PJ. Supervision: KBL SAMH. Validation: MD MP KK ARJ. Visualization: SGh MA. Writing – original draft: KBL SAMH SGh MA. Writing – review & editing: KBL SAMH SGh BE.