Affiliations

• ¹ Department of General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
• ² Department of Surgery, Starzl Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA; Department of Gastroenterological and Transplant Surgery, Graduate School of Biomedical and Health Sciences Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan.
• ³ Department of Surgery, Starzl Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA.
• ⁴ Division of Abdominal Transplant, Department of Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA.
• ⁵ Research Laboratory W23, Department of Pediatric Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; SimLab - Students for Surgery, Student research group, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
• ⁶ Department of General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; Section of Molecular Immunology and Gastroenterology, I. Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; Hamburg Center for Translational Immunology (HCTI), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
• ⁷ Hamburg Center for Translational Immunology (HCTI), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; University Children's Hospital, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; Division for Experimental Feto-Maternal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
• ⁸ Department of Hepatopancreatobiliary and Liver Transplant Surgery, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK; Institute of Liver Studies, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK.
• ⁹ Hepatology and Transplantation Laboratory, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
• ¹⁰ Department of Surgery, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK; Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Hepatopancreatobiliary and Liver Transplant Surgery, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
• ¹¹ 4th Department of Surgery, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece; Division of Surgery & Interventional Science, University College London (UCL), UK.
• ¹² Division of Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO.
• ¹³ MedStar Georgetown Transplant Institute, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, DC.
• ¹⁴ Semmelweis University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Transplantation, and Gastroenterology, Budapest, Hungary.
• ¹⁵ SimLab - Students for Surgery, Student research group, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
• ¹⁶ Department of Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
• ¹⁷ University Children's Hospital, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
• ¹⁸ Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Hepatopancreatobiliary and Liver Transplant Surgery, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
• ¹⁹ Department of Urologic Sciences, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
• ²⁰ Division of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Asklepios Hospital Barmbek, Hamburg, Germany; Semmelweis University Budapest, Asklepios Campus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.
• ²¹ Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
• ²² Hamburg Center for Translational Immunology (HCTI), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; Division for Experimental Feto-Maternal Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Fetal Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
• ²³ Division of Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO; General Surgery, Liver, Pancreas and Intestinal Transplantation, Hospital Universitario, Fundacion Favaloro, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• ²⁴ Section of Molecular Immunology and Gastroenterology, I. Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; Hamburg Center for Translational Immunology (HCTI), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
• ²⁵ Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; HBP and Multi Organ Transplant Program, Division of General Surgery, University Health Network, HPB Surgical Oncology, Toronto, ON, Canada.
• ²⁶ Department of Visceral Surgery and Transplantation, CHU Liege, Liege, Belgium; Centre de Recherche et d'Enseignement du Département de Chirurgie (CREDEC), GIGA Metabolism, University of Liege, Liege, Belgium.
• ²⁷ Hepatology and Transplantation Laboratory, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Hepatopancreatobiliary and Liver Transplant Surgery, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
• ²⁸ PerkinElmer. Inc, Waltham, MA.
• ²⁹ Department of Pediatric Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
• ³⁰ Department of Trauma and Orthopedic Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany.
• ³¹ Transplant Group, La Paz University Hospital Health Research Institute (IdiPAZ), Madrid, Spain; Department of Pediatric Surgery, La Paz University Hospital, Madrid, Spain.
• ³² Division of Abdominal Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC; Division of Solid Organ Transplant, Department of Surgery, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR.
• ³³ Division of Surgery & Interventional Science, University College London (UCL), UK.
• ³⁴ Department of Transplant Surgery, UPMC Children's Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA; Hillman Center for Pediatric Transplantation, Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
• ³⁵ Department of Gastric Surgery, Sun Yat-sen University Cancer Center, State Key Laboratory of Oncology in South China, Collaborative Innovation Center for Cancer Medicine, Guangzhou, PR China.
• ³⁶ Department of Surgery, Starzl Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA; Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.
• ³⁷ Department of General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; Section of Molecular Immunology and Gastroenterology, I. Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; Hamburg Center for Translational Immunology (HCTI), University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Hepatopancreatobiliary and Liver Transplant Surgery, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; Semmelweis University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Transplantation, and Gastroenterology, Budapest, Hungary; Department of Intensive Care Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany; Semmelweis University Budapest, Asklepios Campus Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany. Electronic address: a.giannou@uke.de.