About the Authors

Kuo-Hua Lin

Contributed equally to this work with: Kuo-Hua Lin, Jien-Wei Liu

Affiliations Liver Transplantation Program and Department of Surgery, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Department of General Surgery, Changhua Christian Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan

Jien-Wei Liu

Contributed equally to this work with: Kuo-Hua Lin, Jien-Wei Liu

Affiliations Division of Infectious-Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Chao-Long Chen

Affiliations Liver Transplantation Program and Department of Surgery, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Shih-Hor Wang

Affiliation Liver Transplantation Program and Department of Surgery, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Chih-Che Lin

Affiliation Liver Transplantation Program and Department of Surgery, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Yueh-Wei Liu

Affiliation Liver Transplantation Program and Department of Surgery, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Chee-Chien Yong

Affiliation Liver Transplantation Program and Department of Surgery, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Ting-Lung Lin

Affiliation Liver Transplantation Program and Department of Surgery, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Wei-Feng Li

Affiliation Liver Transplantation Program and Department of Surgery, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Tsung-Hui Hu

Affiliations Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Division of Hepato-Gastroenterology, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Chih-Chi Wang

ufel4996@ms26.hinet.net

Affiliations Liver Transplantation Program and Department of Surgery, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Competing Interests

The authors declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: KHL JWL CLC CCW. Performed the experiments: KHL CCW YWL CCY. Analyzed the data: KHL JWL SHW CCL CCW WFL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KHL JWL THH TLL. Wrote the paper: KHL JWL CCW.