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CC This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. *Correspondence: Jeong Hwan Kim, MD Department of Internal Medicine, Digestive Disease Center, Medical Immunology Center, Konkuk University School of Medicine, Konkuk University Medical Center, 4-12 Hwayang-dong, Gwangjin-gu, Seoul 143-729, Korea Tel: +82-2-2030-5010, Fax: +82-2-2030-5029, E-mail: [email protected] Financial support: None. Conflicts of interest: None. Jeong Hwan Kim Department of Internal Medicine, Digestive Disease Center, Medical Immunology Center, Konkuk University Medical Center, Seoul, Korea