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Affiliations

• ¹ Division of General Medicine C, Department of Medicine, University and Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata of Verona, University of Verona, Verona, Italy; Liver Unit, Department of Medicine, University and Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata of Verona, University of Verona, Verona, Italy. Electronic address: andrea.dalbeni@aovr.veneto.it.
• ² Division of General Medicine C, Department of Medicine, University and Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata of Verona, University of Verona, Verona, Italy; Liver Unit, Department of Medicine, University and Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata of Verona, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.
• ³ Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation, Unit of Metabolic and Internal Medicine, University of Milan, Italy.
• ⁴ Liver Unit, Department of Medicine, University and Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Integrata of Verona, University of Verona, Verona, Italy.