About the Authors

King-Wah Chiu

c471026@ms6.hinet.net (KWC); clchen@cgmh.org.tw (CLC)

Affiliation Liver Transplant Program, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, and Chang Gung University, College of Medicine, Taiwan, Republic of China

Toshiaki Nakano

Affiliation Liver Transplant Program, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, and Chang Gung University, College of Medicine, Taiwan, Republic of China

Kuang-Den Chen

Affiliation Liver Transplant Program, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, and Chang Gung University, College of Medicine, Taiwan, Republic of China

Chia-Yun Lai

Affiliation Liver Transplant Program, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, and Chang Gung University, College of Medicine, Taiwan, Republic of China

Li-Wen Hsu

Affiliation Liver Transplant Program, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, and Chang Gung University, College of Medicine, Taiwan, Republic of China

Ho-Ching Chiu

Affiliation Liver Transplant Program, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, and Chang Gung University, College of Medicine, Taiwan, Republic of China

Ching-Yin Huang

Affiliation Liver Transplant Program, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, and Chang Gung University, College of Medicine, Taiwan, Republic of China

Yu-Fan Cheng

Affiliation Liver Transplant Program, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, and Chang Gung University, College of Medicine, Taiwan, Republic of China

Shigeru Goto

Affiliation Liver Transplant Program, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, and Chang Gung University, College of Medicine, Taiwan, Republic of China

Chao-Long Chen

c471026@ms6.hinet.net (KWC); clchen@cgmh.org.tw (CLC)

Affiliation Liver Transplant Program, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, and Chang Gung University, College of Medicine, Taiwan, Republic of China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KWC TN. Performed the experiments: CYL LWH HCC CYH. Analyzed the data: TN KDC YFC SG CLC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KWC TN. Wrote the paper: KWC TN.