The authors’ reply: Indispensable discrepancy between predicted graft “volume” and actual graft “weight” in clinical practice in living-donor liver transplantation

TY - JOUR

T1 - The authors’ reply

T2 - Indispensable discrepancy between predicted graft “volume” and actual graft “weight” in clinical practice in living-donor liver transplantation

AU - Toshima, Takeo

AU - Yoshizumi, Tomoharu

AU - Harada, Noboru

N1 - Funding Information: Funding: This study was supported by the following five grants; the Program for Basic and Clinical Research on Hepatitis, from the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development, AMED (Numbers 20fk0210035s0503, 20fk0310106h0204, and 19fm0208009h0003); JSPS KAKENHI, a Grant-in-Aid from the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare, Japan (Numbers JP-18K08542); and Taiju Life Social Welfare Foundation 2020. The funding sources had no role in the collection, analysis, or interpretation of the data, or in the decision to submit the article for publication. Conflict of interest: The authors declare no conflicts of interest. Author contribution: T. Toshima participated in the writing of the manuscript. T. Yoshizumi participated in the conception and design of the study. T. Toshima and N. Harada participated in the acquisition of the data. T. Toshima and N. Harada participated in the statistical analysis and interpretation of the data. T. Yoshizumi participated in the review of the manuscript and final approval. Ethical statement: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional review board of our ethics committee, national research committee, as well as with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments. The study protocol was approved by the Institutional Review Board (No. 2019-186). Informed consent: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. Funding Information: Funding: This study was supported by the following five grants; the Program for Basic and Clinical Research on Hepatitis, from the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development, AMED (Numbers 20fk0210035s0503, 20fk0310106h0204, and 19fm0208009h0003); JSPS KAKENHI, a Grant‐in‐Aid from the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare, Japan (Numbers JP‐18K08542); and Taiju Life Social Welfare Foundation 2020. The funding sources had no role in the collection, analysis, or interpretation of the data, or in the decision to submit the article for publication.

PY - 2021/11

Y1 - 2021/11

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U2 - 10.1002/ags3.12492

DO - 10.1002/ags3.12492

M3 - Letter

AN - SCOPUS:85111486456

SN - 2475-0328

VL - 5

SP - 867

EP - 868

JO - Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery

JF - Annals of Gastroenterological Surgery

IS - 6

ER -