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First Online: 9 June 2016

Competing interests

: V.A. has received research funding from Grifols and has served on the scientific advisory board for Takeda. P.G. has received research funding from Grifols, served on the scientific advisory board for Ferring and Squana Medical and received research funding from Sequana Medical. R.J. has received research funding from Vital Therapies, has served on the scientific advisory board for Conatus Pharma and Takeda, has ongoing research collaborations with Gambro and Grifiols and is the principal investigator of an industry sponsored study (Sequana Medical). F.N. has served on the scientific advisory board of Center Fract, Croix Rouge Belgium, Intercept, Gore, Bristol-Myers Squibb, AbbVie, Novartis, MSD, Janssen-Cilag, Promethera Biosciences and Gilead, and has received grants from Roche, Astellas, Ferring, Novartis, Janssen-Cilag and AbbVie. All other authors declare no competing interests.