Medical Research and Clinical Operations, PharmaEssentia Corporation, Taipei, Taiwan

Albert Qin & Chan-Yen Tsai

Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Ming-Chih Ho

Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital Hsin-Chu Branch, Hsinchu, Taiwan

Ming-Chih Ho

Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan

Chun-Jen Liu & Pei-Jer Chen

Hepatitis Research Center, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Chun-Jen Liu & Pei-Jer Chen

Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, No. 7, Chung Shan South Rd., Taipei, Taiwan

Chun-Jen Liu & Pei-Jer Chen

All authors contributed to the work and approved it for publication. P-J C: conceptualization, formal analysis, data curation, investigation, methodology, writing—original draft, writing—review and editing. A Qin: conceptualization, formal analysis, methodology, writing—original draft, writing—review and editing. M-C H: investigation, data curation, methodology, writing—original draft, writing—review and editing. C-J Liu: investigation, data curation, methodology, writing—review and editing. C-Y Tsai: data curation, formal analysis, writing—original draft, writing—review and editing.

Correspondence to Pei-Jer Chen.