Marina Serper, Gina Choi, Kimberly A. Forde, David E. Kaplan – 11 November 2015 – Previous studies have identified gaps in hepatitis B care. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the delivery of care among a national cohort of US veterans with chronic hepatitis B infection and examine risk factors for adverse clinical outcomes.

Stacey S. Huppert – 11 November 2015

Francis Y. Yao, Nicholas Fidelman – 11 November 2015 – Down‐staging of hepatocellular carcinoma prior to liver transplantation (LT) has generated a lot of interest in recent years and has been identified in two recent national conferences on hepatocellular carcinoma as one of the priorities for research. Down‐staging is defined as reduction in the tumor burden using local regional therapy specifically to meet acceptable criteria for LT.

Jeffrey Cui, Elhamy Heba, Carolyn Hernandez, William Haufe, Jonathan Hooker, Michael P. Andre, Mark A. Valasek, Hamed Aryafar, Claude B. Sirlin, Rohit Loomba – 11 November 2015 – Magnetic resonance elastography (MRE), an advanced magnetic resonance–based imaging technique, and acoustic radiation force impulse (ARFI), an ultrasound‐based imaging technique, are accurate for diagnosing nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) fibrosis. However, no head‐to‐head comparisons between MRE and ARFI for diagnosing NAFLD fibrosis have been performed.

Francis Y. Yao, Nicholas Fidelman – 11 November 2015 – Down‐staging of hepatocellular carcinoma prior to liver transplantation (LT) has generated a lot of interest in recent years and has been identified in two recent national conferences on hepatocellular carcinoma as one of the priorities for research. Down‐staging is defined as reduction in the tumor burden using local regional therapy specifically to meet acceptable criteria for LT.

Julius M. Wilder, Lennox J. Jeffers, Natarajan Ravendhran, Mitchell L. Shiffman, John Poulos, Mark S. Sulkowski, Norman Gitlin, Kimberly Workowski, Yanni Zhu, Jenny C. Yang, Phillip S. Pang, John G. McHutchison, Andrew J. Muir, Charles Howell, Kris Kowdley, Nezam Afdhal, K. Rajender Reddy – 6 November 2015 – Black patients chronically infected with genotype 1 hepatitis C virus (HCV) have historically had lower rates of response to interferon‐based treatment than patients of other races.

Lesley De Pietri, Marcello Bianchini, Guadalupe Garcia‐Tsao, Erica Villa – 6 November 2015

Michael J.R. Desborough, Vipul Jairath – 6 November 2015

Jan‐Peter Sowa, Christian Dominik Fingas, Ali Canbay – 6 November 2015

Maria‐Carlota Londoño, Zoe Mariño, Xavier Forns – 5 November 2015