aHPB and Transplant Unit, Freeman Hospital

bPopulation Health Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK

cDepartment of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Sichuan Provincial Pancreatitis Centre and West China-Liverpool Biomedical Research Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China

dSurgical and Translational Research Centre, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

eCentre for Pancreatic Diseases and Mech-Sense, Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Aalborg University Hospital, Denmark

Correspondence to Sanjay Pandanaboyana, MS, FRCS, MPhil, Consultant HPB and Transplant Surgeon, Department of HPB and Transplant Surgery, Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne NE7 7DN, UK. Tel: +44 191 24 48005; e-mail: [email protected]; Asbjørn Mohr Drewes, Centre for Pancreatic Diseases and Mech-Sense, Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Aalborg University Hospital, Hobrovej 18-22, 9100 Aalborg, Denmark. E-mail: [email protected]