About the Authors

Yi-Hao Yen

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi-Hao Yen, Chih-Chi Wang

Roles Conceptualization

cassellyen@yahoo.com.tw (YHY); ufel4996@ms26.hinet.net (CCW)

Affiliation Division of Hepatogastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Kwong-Ming Kee

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Division of Hepatogastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Tsung-Hui Hu

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Division of Hepatogastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Ming-Chao Tsai

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Division of Hepatogastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Yuan-Hung Kuo

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Division of Hepatogastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital and Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Wei-Feng Li

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Liver Transplantation Center and Department of Surgery, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Yueh-Wei Liu

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Liver Transplantation Center and Department of Surgery, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Chih-Chi Wang

Contributed equally to this work with: Yi-Hao Yen, Chih-Chi Wang

Roles Supervision

cassellyen@yahoo.com.tw (YHY); ufel4996@ms26.hinet.net (CCW)

Affiliation Liver Transplantation Center and Department of Surgery, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Chih-Yun Lin

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Biostatistics Center of Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.