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Correspondence: Marjan Afrouzian, maafrouz@utmb.edu
Author contributions: MA designed the study and acted as facilitator for Delphi. MA and HL conceived the study and selected cases for validation. HL supervised the study. NK, VB, LT, CA-C, HR, JA, AF, DB, PC, MC-vG, SdA, DE, MF, DG, EH, NM, YO, MR, VR, HS, and DT participated as panelists, suggested the initial 338 criteria, participated in Delphi consensus rounds and performed two validation rounds on 37 cases. EH, VB, LT, CA-C, JA, NK, MC-vG, SdA, and SS provided crucial contribution by submitting cases. LC performed data collection and participated in data analysis. SS contributed to the development of the initial framework. MA, NK, and HL reviewed the results of R9 and wrote the manuscript. VB, LT, CA-C, HR, JA, and AF critically reviewed, commented on, and edited the manuscript. MA and NK acquired funding for the research. All authors contributed to the article and approved the submitted version.
Acknowledgements: The authors would like to acknowledge the support of Dr. Reza Alaghehbandan for statistical analysis of R5 data, and Dr. Michael Mengel for helpful discussions and suggestions.
Competing interests: The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
The authors declare that this study received funding from Alexion Pharmaceuticals (grant # 100288) and the Banff Foundation on Allograft Pathology (for publication fees).
© 2023 Afrouzian, Kozakowski, Liapis, Broecker, Truong, Avila-Casado, Regele, Seshan, Ambruzs, Farris, Buob, Chander, Cheraghvandi, Clahsen-van Groningen, de Almeida Araujo, Ertoy Baydar, Formby, Galesic Ljubanovic, Herrera Hernandez, Honsova, Mohamed, Ozluk, Rabant, Royal, Stevenson, Toniolo and Taheri.