About the Authors

Yi-Hao Yen

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

cassellyen@yahoo.com.tw

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

Yu-Fan Cheng

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Liver Transplantation Center, Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Jing-Houng Wang

Roles Supervision

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

Chih-Che Lin

Roles Supervision

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

Chih-Chi Wang

Roles Supervision

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

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