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  1. Gautam Mehta1,
  2. Juan G Abraldes2,3,
  3. Jaime Bosch2,3
  1. 1UCL Institute of Hepatology, University College London, London, UK
  2. 2Hepatic Hemodynamic Laboratory, Liver Unit, Hospital Clínic-IDIBAPS, Barcelona, Spain
  3. 3Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), Barcelona, Spain
  1. Correspondence to Dr Gautam Mehta, UCL Institute of Hepatology, Upper 3rd Floor, UCL Medical School, Royal Free Campus, London NW3 2PF, UK; gautam.mehta{at}ucl.ac.uk

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/gut.2010.226316

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    • Funding Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación.

    • Competing interests None.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; not externally peer reviewed.

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