The impact of broader regional sharing of livers: 2‐year results of “Share 35”

Erick B. Edwards, Ann M. Harper, Ryutaro Hirose, David C. Mulligan – 17 February 2016 – In June of 2013, the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) implemented regional sharing for Model for End‐Stage Liver Disease (MELD)/Pediatric End‐Stage Liver Disease (PELD) candidates with scores reaching 35 and above (“Share 35”). The goal of this distribution change was to increase access to lifesaving transplants for the sickest candidates with chronic liver disease and to reduce the waiting‐list mortality for this medically urgent group of patients.

Daclatasvir combined with sofosbuvir or simeprevir in liver transplant recipients with severe recurrent hepatitis C infection

Robert J. Fontana, Robert S. Brown, Ana Moreno‐Zamora, Martin Prieto, Shobha Joshi, Maria‐Carlota Londoño, Kerstin Herzer, Kristina R. Chacko, Rudolf E. Stauber, Viola Knop, Syed‐Mohammed Jafri, Lluís Castells, Peter Ferenci, Carlo Torti, Christine M. Durand, Laura Loiacono, Raffaella Lionetti, Ranjeeta Bahirwani, Ola Weiland, Abdullah Mubarak, Ahmed M. ElSharkawy, Bernhard Stadler, Marzia Montalbano, Christoph Berg, Adriano M. Pellicelli, Stephan Stenmark, Francis Vekeman, Raluca Ionescu‐Ittu, Bruno Emond, K.

Recurrent recessive mutation in deoxyguanosine kinase causes idiopathic noncirrhotic portal hypertension

Sílvia Vilarinho, Sinan Sari, Güldal Yilmaz, Amy L. Stiegler, Titus J. Boggon, Dhanpat Jain, Gulen Akyol, Buket Dalgic, Murat Günel, Richard P. Lifton – 13 February 2016 – Despite advances in the diagnosis and management of idiopathic noncirrhotic portal hypertension, its pathogenesis remains elusive. Insight may be gained from study of early‐onset familial idiopathic noncirrhotic portal hypertension, in which Mendelian mutations may account for disease.

Is increased hepatitis C virus case‐finding combined with current or 8‐week to 12‐week direct‐acting antiviral therapy cost‐effective in UK prisons? A prevention benefit analysis

Natasha K. Martin, Peter Vickerman, Iain F. Brew, Joan Williamson, Alec Miners, William L. Irving, Sushma Saksena, Sharon J. Hutchinson, Sema Mandal, Eamonn O'Moore, Matthew Hickman – 10 February 2016 – Prisoners have a high prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV), but case‐finding may not have been cost‐effective because treatment often exceeded average prison stay combined with a lack of continuity of care. We assessed the cost‐effectiveness of increased HCV case‐finding and treatment in UK prisons using short‐course therapies.

Genome‐wide association study in mice identifies loci affecting liver‐related phenotypes including Sel1l influencing serum bile acids

Wei Wu, Ami Patel, Kaisa Kyöstilä, Hannes Lohi, Nikol Mladkova, Krzysztof Kiryluk, Xiaoyun Sun, Jay H. Lefkowitch, Howard J. Worman, Ali G. Gharavi – 9 February 2016 – Using publicly available data from inbred mouse strains, we conducted a genome‐wide association study to identify loci that accounted for liver‐related phenotypes between C57BL/6J and A/J mice fed a Paigen diet. We confirmed genome‐wide significant associations for hepatic cholesterol (chromosome 10A2) and serum total bile acid concentration (chromosome 12E) and identified a new locus for liver inflammation (chromosome 7C).

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