Author’s contributions
Ta’a
BLOOD
Cezar Lahham, Mahmoud Abu Ta’a, Elias Lahham, Saleem Michael and Wael Zarif: conception and design of the clinical trial; C.L.: surgical procedures, data acquisition, analysis, and interpretation; M.A.: drafting of the manuscript and editing; E.L.: data interpretation and manuscript revision; S.M.: Blood sampling collection and organizing the laboratory procedures; W.Z. data acquisition, analysis, and editing; All authors reviewed the manuscript.