TRANSPLANTATION PROCEEDINGS

AUTHORSHIP AND CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENT (ACIS)

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STATEMENT 1

To qualify for authorship, authors listed must have made substantial contributions to the intellectual content of thepaper in each of the three categories shown below. If an author listed on the manuscript does notmeet at least one criterion in each category for authorship, they should be removed as authors. Thisissue needs to be resolved amongst the authorship prior to submission.

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Article submitted as part of the 11th Congress of The Catalan Transplantation Society (SCT) 16-18 March 2011, Barcelona, Spain.

All authors listed on the Title page have made substantive intellectual contributions to the content of this manuscript in at least one of the followingcategories:

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