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Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany; European Foundation for the Study of Chronic Liver Failure - EF CLIF, Barcelona, Spain. Electronic address: [email protected].
• ² Department of Internal Medicine I, University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany.
• ³ Barcelona Hepatic Hemodynamic Laboratory, Liver Unit, Hospital Clinic, Institut d'Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi I i Sunyer, (IDIBAPS), University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica Red de enfermedades hepáticas y digestivas (CIBERehd), Spain; Health Care Provider of the European Reference Network on Rare Liver Disorders (ERN-Liver).
• ⁴ Centro de Investigación Biomédica Red de enfermedades hepáticas y digestivas (CIBERehd), Spain; Swiss Liver Centre, Inselspital, Bern University, Bern, Switzerland.
• ⁵ Centro de Investigación Biomédica Red de enfermedades hepáticas y digestivas (CIBERehd), Spain; Gregorio Marañón University General Hospital, Gregorio Marañón Sanitary Research Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.