Hartmann, Matthias http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1596-0613
Walde, Caroline
Dirkmann, Daniel
Saner, Fuat H.
Article History
Received: 7 January 2019
Accepted: 23 May 2019
First Online: 11 June 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: After approval by the local ethics committee (Ethikkommission der medizinischen Fakultät, Universitätsklinikum Essen, 09–4091), data from 372 consecutive adult liver transplantation procedures were retrospectively analysed. Due to the retrospective data analysis, consent to participate was waived by the ethics committee.
: Not applicable
: For the present non-commercial, investigator-initiated, retrospective study MH and FHS received an unrestricted grant for data analyses by a study nurse from CSL Behring GmbH, Marburg, Germany. The sponsor was neither involved in data collection, analysis or interpretation, nor in writing of the manuscript and decision to submit the manuscript. FHS and DD have received honoraria and/or traveling support from CSL Behring GmbH, Marburg, Germany, and TEM international GmbH, Munich Germany. DD has served as an advisory board member for Instrumentation Laboratory, Bedford, MA, USA. CW declares no conflict of interests.