Gastroenterology
Volume 137, Issue 5 , Pages 1680-1686, November 2009

Trends in Waiting List Registration for Liver Transplantation for Viral Hepatitis in the United States

  • W. Ray Kim

      Affiliations

    • Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests Address requests for reprints to: W. Ray Kim, MD, Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (PL 6), 200 1st Street SW, Rochester, Minnesota 55905. fax: (507) 538-3974
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  • Norah A. Terrault

      Affiliations

    • University of California-San Francisco, San Francisco, California
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  • Rachel A. Pedersen

      Affiliations

    • Division of Biostatistics, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota
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  • Terry M. Therneau

      Affiliations

    • Division of Biostatistics, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota
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  • Erick Edwards

      Affiliations

    • United Network for Organ Sharing, Richmond, Virginia
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  • Andrew A. Hindman

      Affiliations

    • Gilead Sciences, Inc, Foster City, California
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  • Carol L. Brosgart

      Affiliations

    • Gilead Sciences, Inc, Foster City, California

published online 27 July 2009.

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 Conflicts of interest The authors disclose the following: W. Ray Kim received a grant from the Gilead Sciences, Inc, to conduct this study. He has served as a consultant for Roche, Bristol–Myers–Squibb, Idenix, Schering-Plough, and Gilead Sciences. Norah Terrault has received grants from Gilead Sciences, Cangene, NABI, and Roche and consulted Bristol-Myers-Squibb. Andrew Hindman was a former employee of Gilead Sciences, Inc, and Carol Brosgart was a former employee of Gilead Sciences. Terry Therneau, Rachel Pedersen, and Erick Edwards disclose no conflicts.

 Funding Supported by grants from the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases (DK-34238 and DK-61617), and Gilead Sciences, Inc, provided unrestricted grant in partial support of the work; however, the content of the work including data analysis and interpretation was solely that of the authors.

PII: S0016-5085(09)01246-3

doi:10.1053/j.gastro.2009.07.047

Gastroenterology
Volume 137, Issue 5 , Pages 1680-1686, November 2009

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