Semmler, Georg
Stift, Judith
Scheiner, Bernhard
Wöran, Katharina
Schwabl, Philipp
Paternostro, Rafael
Bucsics, Theresa
Stättermayer, Albert Friedrich
Pinter, Matthias
Ferlitsch, Arnulf
Trauner, Michael
Reiberger, Thomas
Mandorfer, Mattias http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2330-0017
Article History
Received: 10 March 2019
Accepted: 4 June 2019
First Online: 17 June 2019
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: The authors have nothing to disclose regarding the work under consideration for publication. The following authors disclose conflicts of interests outside the submitted work: JS received grant support from Gilead, Eli, and Lilly. BS received travel support from Gilead. PS received speaker fees from Boehringer Ingelheim and travel support from Boehringer Ingelheim and Gilead. MP received speaker fees from Bayer and Bristol-Myers Squibb, travel support from Bayer, and served as advisory board member for Bayer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Eisai. AF has served as a speaker and consultant for AbbVie, Gilead, and Intercept and owns a patent on a catheter for the measurement of hepatic venous pressure gradient. MT received speaker fees from Gilead and MSD, travel support from Gilead, grant support from MSD, and honoraria for consulting from AbbVie, Gilead, Janssen, and MSD. TR received speaker fees from Boehringer Ingelheim, Gore, and MSD, travel support from Boehringer Ingelheim, Gilead, MSD, and Gore, grant support from AbbVie, Boehringer Ingelheim, Boston Scientific, Cook Medical, Gilead, Gore, Guerbet, Phenex Pharmaceuticals, Philips, and MSD, and served as a consultant for AbbVie, Bayer, Boehringer Ingelheim, Gilead, and MSD. MM served as a speaker and consultant for AbbVie, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead, Gore, and Janssen. GS, RP, KW, and AFS have nothing to disclose.
: This study was approved by the ethics committee of the Medical University of Vienna (No. 1124/2017) and performed in accordance with the ethical guidelines denoted in the Declaration of Helsinki (version 2013). Since this is a retrospective analysis, the requirement of a written informed consent was waived by the ethics committee.