About the Authors

Madalina-Gabriela Taru

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ MGT and CT are equally to this work as shared first authorship.

Affiliations Faculty of Medicine, "Iuliu Hatieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania, Regional Institute of Gastroenterology and Hepatology "Octavian Fodor", Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Cristian Tefas

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ MGT and CT are equally to this work as shared first authorship.

Affiliations Faculty of Medicine, "Iuliu Hatieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania, Regional Institute of Gastroenterology and Hepatology "Octavian Fodor", Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania

Lidia Neamti

Roles Data curation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Faculty of Medicine, "Iuliu Hatieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania, Regional Institute of Gastroenterology and Hepatology "Octavian Fodor", Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania

Iulia Minciuna

Roles Data curation, Visualization

Affiliations Faculty of Medicine, "Iuliu Hatieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania, Regional Institute of Gastroenterology and Hepatology "Octavian Fodor", Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania

Vlad Taru

Roles Data curation, Visualization

Affiliations Faculty of Medicine, "Iuliu Hatieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania, Regional Institute of Gastroenterology and Hepatology "Octavian Fodor", Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine III, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Anca Maniu

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Regional Institute of Gastroenterology and Hepatology "Octavian Fodor", Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania

Ioana Rusu

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Regional Institute of Gastroenterology and Hepatology "Octavian Fodor", Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania

Bobe Petrushev

Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Regional Institute of Gastroenterology and Hepatology "Octavian Fodor", Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania

Lucia Maria Procopciuc

Roles Visualization

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, "Iuliu Hatieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania

Dan Corneliu Leucuta

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Visualization

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, "Iuliu Hatieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania

Bogdan Procopet

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Faculty of Medicine, "Iuliu Hatieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania, Regional Institute of Gastroenterology and Hepatology "Octavian Fodor", Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania

Silvia Ferri

Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Internal Medicine, Hepatobiliary and Immunoallergic Diseases, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero—Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

Monica Lupsor-Platon

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

monica.lupsor@umfcluj.ro

Affiliations Faculty of Medicine, "Iuliu Hatieganu" University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania, Regional Institute of Gastroenterology and Hepatology "Octavian Fodor", Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania

Horia Stefanescu

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Regional Institute of Gastroenterology and Hepatology "Octavian Fodor", Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania

Competing Interests

NO authors have competing interests.