Authors and Disclosures
Cumali Efe1, Craig Lammert2, Koray Taşçılar3, Renumathy Dhanasekaran4, Berat Ebik5, Fatima Higuera-de la Tijera6, Ali R. Calışkan7, Mirta Peralta8,9, Alessio Gerussi10,11, Hatef Massoumi12, Andreea M. Catana13, Tugrul Purnak14, Cristina Rigamonti15,16, Andres J. G. Aldana17, Nidah Khakoo18, Leyla Nazal19, Shalom Frager12, Nurhan Demir20, Kader Irak21, Zeynep Melekoğlu-Ellik22, Hüseyin Kacmaz7, Yasemin Balaban23, Kadri Atay24, Fatih Eren25, Mario R. Alvares-da-Silva26,27, Laura Cristoferi10,11, Álvaro Urzua28, Tuğçe Eşkazan29, Bianca Magro30, Romee Snijders31,32, Sezgin Barutçu33, Ellina Lytvyak34, Godolfino M. Zazueta35, Aylin Demirezer-Bolat36, Mesut Aydın37, Alexandra Heurgue-Berlot38, Eleonora De Martin39, Nazım Ekin5, Sümeyra Yıldırım40, Ahmet Yavuz41, Murat Bıyık41, Graciela C. Narro42, Murat Kıyıcı43, Murat Akyıldız44, Evrim Kahramanoğlu-Aksoy45, Maria Vincent46, Rotonya M Carr47, Fulya Günşar48, Eira C. Reyes49, Murat Harputluoğlu50, Costica Aloman51, Nikolaos K. Gatselis52, Yücel Üstündağ53, Javier Brahm54, Nataly C. E. Vargas55, Fatih Güzelbulut56, Sandro R. Garcia57, Jonathan Aguirre58, Margarita Anders59, Natalia Ratusnu60, Ibrahim Hatemi29, Manuel Mendizabal9,61, Annarosa Floreani62,63, Stefano Fagiuoli30, Marcelo Silva9,61, Ramazan Idilman22, Sanjaya K. Satapathy46, Marina Silveira64, Joost P. H. Drenth31,32, George N Dalekos52, David N.Assis64, Einar Björnsson65, James L. Boyer64, Eric M. Yoshida66, Pietro Invernizzi10,11, Cynthia Levy18, Aldo J. Montano-Loza34, Thomas D. Schiano67, Ezequiel Ridruejo9,61,68 and Staffan Wahlin69
1Department of Gastroenterology, Harran University Hospital, Şanlıurfa, Turkey
2Department of Medicine Indiana, University School of Medicine Indianapolis, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
3Department of Medicine 3-Rheumatology and Immunology, Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg and Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
4Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA
5Department of Gastroenterology, Gazi Yaşargil Education and Research Hospital, Diyarbakir, Turkey
6Gastroenterology and Hepatology Unit, Hospital General de México, Ciudad de México, México
7Department of Gastroenterology, Adıyaman University, Adıyaman, Turkey
8Hepatology Section, Hospital Francisco J Muñiz, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
9Latin American Liver Research Educational and Awareness Network (LALREAN), Pilar, Argentina
10Division of Gastroenterology and Center for Autoimmune Liver Diseases, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Milano-Bicocca, Monza, Italy
11European Reference Network on Hepatological Diseases (ERN RARE-LIVER), San Gerardo Hospital, Monza, Italy
12Department of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York, USA
13Division of Gastroenterology/Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
14Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, McGovern Medical School, Houston, Texas, USA
15Department of Translational Medicine, Università del Piemonte Orientale UPO, Novara, Italy
16Division of Internal Medicine, "AOU Maggiore della Carità", Novara, Italy
17Gastroenterology and Hepatology Unit, Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá y universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia
18Division of Digestive Health and Liver Diseases, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA
19Gastroenterology and Hepatology Unit, Clínica Las Condes, Santiago de Chile, Chile
20Department of Gastroenterology, Haseki Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
21Department of Gastroenterology, SBU Kanuni Sultan Süleyman Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
22Department of Gastroenterology, Ankara University Medical Faculty, Ankara, Turkey
23Department of Gastroenterology, Faculty of Medicine, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
24Departmant of Gastroenterology, Mardin State Hospital, Mardin, Turkey
25Departmant of Gastroenterology, Ordu State Hospital, Ordu, Turkey
26Gastroenterology and Hepatology Division, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil
27Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
28Gastroenterology and Hepatology Unit. Hospital Clínico, Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile
29Department of Gastroenterology, Cerrahpaşa School of Medicine, İstanbul, Turkey
30Gastroenterology Hepatology and Transplantation, ASST Papa Giovanni XXIII-Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy
31Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
32European Reference Network on Hepatological Diseases (ERN RARE-LIVER), Nijmegen, The Netherlands
33Department of Gastroenterology, University of Gaziantep Medical Faculty, Gaziantep, Turkey
34Division of Gastroenterology and Liver Unit, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
35Gastroenterology Unit, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición "Salvador Zubirán", Ciudad de México, México
36Department of Gastroenterology, Ankara City Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
37School of Medicine, Department of Gastroenterology, Van Yuzuncu Yil University, Van, Turkey
38Department of Hepato-Gastroenterology, CHU Reims, Reims, France
39Centre Hepato-Biliaire, Hôpital Paul-Brousse, FHU Hepatinov, INSERM Unit UMR 1193, Univ Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
40Department of Gastroenterology, Erciyes Hospital, Kayseri, Turkey
41Division of Gastroenterology, Meram School of Medicine, Necmettin Erbakan University, Konya, Turkey
42Gastroenterology Unit, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición "Salvador Zubirán", Ciudad de México, México
43Department of Gastroenterology, Medical Faculty, Uludag University, Bursa, Turkey
44Department of Gastroenterology, Koc University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
45Department of Gastroenterology, Keçiören Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey
46Department of Internal Medicine, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine, Northwell Health, Manhasset, NY, USA
47Division of Gastroenterology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
48Department of Gastroenterology, Ege University School of Medicine, İzmir, Turkey
49Hepatology Unit. Hospital Militar Central de México, Ciudad de México, México
50Department of Gastroenterology, Inönü University School of Medicine, Malatya, Turkey
51Section of Hepatology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, USA
52Department of Medicine and Research Laboratory of Internal Medicine, National Expertise Center of Greece in Autoimmune Liver Diseases, General University Hospital of Larissa, Larissa, Greece
53Department of Gastroenterology, Bulent Ecevit University of Medicine, Zonguldak, Turkey
54Gastroenterology Unit, Clínica Las Condes, Santiago, Chile
55Hepatology Unit Hospital Nacional Almanzor Aguinaga Asenjo, Chiclayo, Perú
56Department of Gastroenterology, Haydarpaşa Numune Education and Research Hospital, İstanbul, Turkey
57Gastroenterology Unit, Hospital Víctor Lazarte Echegaray, Trujillo, Perú
58Hepatology Unit, Hospital Ángeles Pedregal, Ciudad de México, México
59Hepatology and Liver Transplant Unit, Hospital Alemán, Buenos Aires, Argentina
60Hepatology Unit, Hospital Regional de Ushuaia, Ushuaia, Argentina
61Hepatology and Liver Transplant Unit, Hospital Universitario Austral, Pilar, Argentina
62Scientific Consultant IRCCS Negrar, Verona, Italy
63Senior Scholar, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
64Department of Medicine, Section of Digestive Diseases Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
65Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Gastroenterology, Landspitali University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland
66Division of Gastroenterology, University of British Columbia and Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, Canada
67Division of Liver Diseases, The Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
68Hepatology Section, Department of Medicine, Centro de Educación Médica e Investigaciones Clínicas, CEMIC, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
69Hepatology Division, Department of Upper GI Diseases, Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Correspondence
Cumali Efe MD, Department of Gastroenterology, Harran University Hospital, Şanlıurfa, Turkey. Email: drcumi21@hotmail.com
Conflict of Interest
The authors do not have any disclosures to report.
Author Contributions
CE, SW, TDS, RD and ER conceptualized the study. CE, RD, BE, KT, SW and ER collected and analysed data. CE, RD, CL, BE, FHT, CA, ARÇ, MP, LC, HM, MAC, TP, CR, AJGA, NK, HK, LN, SF, KI, ZME, MMA, MA, YB, KA, AG, EB, FE, AU, BM, NE, ND, RS, RMC, MH, IH, MK, MM, MS, MRAS, TE, BM, SB, EL, GMZ, ADB, MA, AHB, EDM, SY, AY, MB, GCN, EKA, MV, FG, ECR, NKG, YÜ, JB, NCEV, FGU, SRG, JA, MA, NR, AF, SF, SKS, GND, EMY, RI, MS, JPHD, DA, EB, JLB, PI, CL, ER and SW contributed data. CE, RD, TDS, KT, ER, and SW interpreted data and prepared manuscript. All authors approved the final version of the manuscript.