Babak Banan, Rao Watson, Min Xu, Yiing Lin, William Chapman – 30 March 2016 – Donor organ shortages have led to an increased interest in finding new approaches to recover organs from extended criteria donors (ECD). Normothermic extracorporeal liver perfusion (NELP) has been proposed as a superior preservation method to reduce ischemia/reperfusion injury (IRI), precondition suboptimal grafts, and treat ECD livers so that they can be successfully used for transplantation. The aim of this study was to investigate the beneficial effects of a modified NELP circuit on discarded human livers.

Amar Gupta, Goran B. Klintmalm, Peter T. W. Kim – 30 March 2016

Fabio Ferla, Riccardo De Carlis, Anna Mariani, Luciano De Carlis – 30 March 2016

Joris J. Blok, Olivier Detry, Hein Putter, Xavier Rogiers, Robert J. Porte, Bart van Hoek, Jacques Pirenne, Herold J. Metselaar, Jan P. Lerut, Dirk K. Ysebaert, Valerio Lucidi, Roberto I. Troisi, Undine Samuel, A. Claire den Dulk, Jan Ringers, Andries E. Braat, for the Eurotransplant Liver Intestine Advisory Committee – 30 March 2016 – Donation after circulatory death (DCD) liver transplantation (LT) may imply a risk for decreased graft survival, caused by posttransplantation complications such as primary nonfunction or ischemic‐type biliary lesions.

Rohit Sawhney, Peter Holland‐Fischer, Matteo Rosselli, Rajeshwar P. Mookerjee, Banwari Agarwal, Rajiv Jalan – 30 March 2016 – Hepatic encephalopathy (HE) is a common feature of acute‐on‐chronic liver failure (ACLF). Although ammonia, inflammation, and cerebral oxygenation are associated with HE in acute liver failure, their roles in ACLF are unknown. The aim of this prospective, longitudinal study was to determine the role of these pathophysiological variables in ACLF patients with and without HE. We studied 101 patients with ACLF admitted to the intensive care unit.

Julius M. Wilder, Omobonike O. Oloruntoba, Andrew J. Muir, Cynthia A. Moylan – 30 March 2016 – Despite major improvements in access to liver transplantation (LT), disparities remain. Little is known about how distrust in medical care, patient preferences, and the origins shaping those preferences contribute to differences surrounding access. We performed a single‐center, cross‐sectional survey of adults with end‐stage liver disease and compared responses between LT listed and nonlisted patients as well as by race.

Geoffrey W. McCaughan, Stephen R. Munn – 30 March 2016 – Liver transplantation (LT) in Australia and New Zealand began in 1985. Over this time until December 2014, LT took place in 3700 adults and 800 children. LT is regulated with 1 unit, supported by the government, per state or region. Currently approximately 270 transplants take place per year. Organ donation rates are moderate in Australia (17 per 1 million of population) but very low in New Zealand (11 per 1 million of population). All the units share organ donors for fulminant hepatic failure cases (status 1).

Nam‐Joon Yi, Jeong‐Moo Lee, Hyeyoung Kim, YoungRok Choi, Hae‐Won Lee, Hyun‐Young Kim, Ung Sik Jin, Jae Sung Ko, Jin Soo Moon, Chul‐Woo Jung, Kwang‐Woong Lee, Kyung‐Suk Suh – 30 March 2016

Patrizia Burra, Giacomo Germani – 30 March 2016

Deepak Joshi – 29 March 2016