Frequent detection of functional hyposplenism via assessment of pitted erythrocytes in patients with advanced liver cirrhosis

• Malte H. Wehmeyer ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Malte H. Wehmeyer, Harsha Sekhri

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: m.wehmeyer@uke.de

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3606-3818

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• Harsha Sekhri ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Malte H. Wehmeyer, Harsha Sekhri

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

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• Raluca Wroblewski,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute for Hematopathology Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

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• Antonio Galante,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Ente Ospedaliero Cantonale, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland

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• Thomas Meyer,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Dermatology, Venerology and Allergology, Ruhr-University Bochum, Bochum, Germany

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• Ansgar W. Lohse,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

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• Julian Schulze zur Wiesch

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

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