About the Authors

Sven H. Loosen

Contributed equally to this work with: Sven H. Loosen, Mirco Castoldi, Markus S. Jördens

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinic for Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Mirco Castoldi

Contributed equally to this work with: Sven H. Loosen, Mirco Castoldi, Markus S. Jördens

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinic for Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Markus S. Jördens

Contributed equally to this work with: Sven H. Loosen, Mirco Castoldi, Markus S. Jördens

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinic for Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Sanchary Roy

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinic for Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Mihael Vucur

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinic for Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Jennis Kandler

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinic for Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Linda Hammerich

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Raphael Mohr

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Frank Tacke

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Tom F. Ulmer

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Ulf P. Neumann

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Visceral and Transplantation Surgery, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany

Tom Luedde

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

tom.luedde@med.uni-duesseldorf.de (TL); christoph.roderburg@med.uni-duesseldorf.de (CR)

‡ These authors share senior authorship on this work.

Affiliation Clinic for Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany

Christoph Roderburg

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

tom.luedde@med.uni-duesseldorf.de (TL); christoph.roderburg@med.uni-duesseldorf.de (CR)

‡ These authors share senior authorship on this work.

Affiliations Clinic for Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Medical Faculty of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany, Department of Hepatology and Gastroenterology, Charité University Medicine Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.