Paulius Jonaitis¹, Olga P. Nyssen², Ilaria Maria Saracino³, Giulia Fiorini³, Dino Vaira³, Ángeles Pérez-Aísa⁴, Bojan Tepes⁵, M. Castro-Fernández⁶, Manuel Pabón-Carrasco⁶, Alma Keco-Huerga⁶, Irina Voynovan⁷, Alfredo J Lucendo⁸, Ángel Lanas⁹, Samuel J Martínez-Domínguez⁹, Enrique Alfaro Almajano⁹, Luis Rodrigo¹⁰, Ludmila Vologzanina¹¹, Natasa Brglez Jurecic¹², Maja Denkovski¹², Luis Bujanda¹³, Umud Mahmudov¹⁴, Mrcis Leja¹⁵, Frode Lerang¹⁶, Gülüstan Babayeva¹⁷, Dmitry S. Bordin¹⁸, Antonio Gasbarrini¹⁹, Juozas Kupcinskas²⁰, Oleksiy Gridnyev²¹, Theodore Rokkas²², Ricardo Marcos-Pinto²³, Perminder S. Phull²⁴, Sinead M. Smith²⁵, Ante Tonki²⁶, Doron Boltin²⁷, György Miklós Buzás²⁸, Lumír Kunovský²⁹, Halis imek³⁰, Tamara Matysiak-Budnik³¹, Vladimir Milivojevic³², Wojciech Marlicz³³, Marino Venerito³⁴, Lyudmila Boyanova³⁵, Michael Doulberis³⁶, Lisette G. Capelle³⁷, Anna Cano-Català³⁸, Leticia Moreira³⁹, Francis Mégraud⁴⁰, Colm O’Morain²⁵, Javier P. Gisbert² y Laimas Jonaitis<sup>1

1</sup>Department of Gastroenterology, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lituania. ²Servicio de Aparato Digestivo, Hospital Universitario de La Princesa, Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria Princesa (IIS-Princesa), Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. ³Department of Surgical and Medical Sciences, IRCCS S. Orsola, University of Bologna, Italia. ⁴Agencia Sanitaria Costa del Sol, Red de Investigación en Servicios de Salud en Enfermedades Crónicas (REDISSEC), Marbella. ⁵Department of Gastroenterology, AM DC Rogaska, Slatina, Eslovenia. ⁶Department of Gastroenterology, Hospital de Valme, Sevilla. ⁷Department of Gastroenterology, A.S. Loginov Moscow Clinical Scientific Center, Moscú, Rusia. ⁸Department of Gastroenterology, Hospital General de Tomelloso. ⁹Hospital Clínico Universitario Lozano Blesa, Zaragoza. ¹⁰Gastroenterology Unit, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Oviedo. ¹¹Department of Gastroenterology, Gastrocentr, Perm, Rusia. ¹²Department of Gastroenterology, Interni Oddelek, Diagnostic Centre, Bled, Eslovenia. ¹³Hospital Donostia, Instituto Biodonostia, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU), San Sebastián. ¹⁴Modern Hospital, Baku, Azerbaiyán. ¹⁵Department of Gastroenterology, Digestive Diseases Centre Gastro, Institute of Clinical and Preventive Medicine and Faculty of Medicine, University of Latvia, Riga, Letonia. ¹⁶Department of Gastroenterology, Østfold Hospital Trust, Grålum, Noruega. ¹⁷Memorial Klinik, Bakú, Azerbaiyán. ¹⁸Department of Gastroenterology, A.S. Loginov Moscow Clinical Scientific Center, A.I. Yevdokimov Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry, Tver State Medical University, Tver, Rusia. ¹⁹Medicina Interna, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, Italia. ²⁰Department of Gastroenterology, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lituania. ²¹L.T. Malaya Therapy, National Institute of the National Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ucrania. ²²Department of Gastroenterology, Henry Dunant Hospital, Athens, Grecia. ²³Department of Gastroenterology, Centro Hospitalar do Porto Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar, Centro de Investigação em Tecnologias e Serviços de Saúde, University of Porto, Portugal. ²⁴Department of Gastroenterology, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen, Reino Unido. ²⁵Faculty of Health Sciences, Trinity College Dublin, Irlanda. ²⁶Department of Gastroenterology, University Hospital of Split, University of Split School of Medicine, Split, Croacia. ²⁷Division of Gastroenterology, Rabin Medical Center, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel. ²⁸Department of Gastroenterology, Ferencváros Health Centre, Budapest, Hungría. ²⁹Department of Gastroenterology and Internal Medicine, Department of Surgery, University Hospital Brno, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, República Checa. ³⁰Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Hacettepe University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turquía. ³¹Department of Gastroenterology, CHRU de Nantes, Hôpital Hôtel Dieu, Nantes, Francia. ³²Department of Gastroenterology, Clinical Center of Serbia, University of Belgrade School of Medicine, Belgrado, Serbia. ³³Department of Gastroenterology, Pomeranian Medical University, Szczecin, Polonia. ³⁴Department of Gastroenterology, Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Alemania. ³⁵Department of Gastroenterology, Medical Microbiology, Medical University of Sofia, Bulgaria. ³⁶Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Medical University Department, Kantonsspital Aarau, Aarau, Suiza. ³⁷Department of Gastroenterology, Meander Medical Center, Amersfoort, Países Bajos. ³⁸GOES research group, Althaia Xarxa Assistencial Universitària de Manresa. ³⁹Department of Gastroenterology, Hospital Clínic Barcelona, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red en Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBEREHD), IDIBAPS (Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer), University of Barcelona. ⁴⁰INSERM U1312, Université de Bordeaux, Francia.