Acknowledgments
We thank the study volunteers for participating in this investigation and the nursing staff of the Vienna General Hospital for their skilled work. We thank Dr. Josef Kletzmayr for his support in patient recruitment. This academic study was sponsored by the Medical University of Vienna, Austria. Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT00980356.
Disclosure
The authors of this manuscript have no conflicts of interest to disclose as described by the American Journal of Transplantation.