Salvatore Piano, Silvano Fasolato, Freddy Salinas, Antonietta Romano, Marta Tonon, Filippo Morando, Marta Cavallin, Elisabetta Gola, Antonietta Sticca, Arianna Loregian, Giorgio Palù, Giacomo Zanus, Marco Senzolo, Patrizia Burra, Umberto Cillo, Paolo Angeli – 18 June 2015 – Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis (SBP) is a common, life‐threatening complication of liver cirrhosis. Third‐generation cephalosporins have been considered the first‐line treatment of SBP.

Jonathan Hand, Shirish Huprikar – 16 June 2015

Huizhen Nie, Jun Li, Xiao‐Mei Yang, Qing‐Zhen Cao, Ming‐Xuan Feng, Feng Xue, Lin Wei, Wenxin Qin, Jianren Gu, Qiang Xia, Zhi‐Gang Zhang – 16 June 2015 – Hormones and their corresponding receptors are vital in controlling metabolism under normal physiologic and pathologic conditions, but less is known about their roles in the metabolism of cancer.

Lynn A. Fussner, Vivek N. Iyer, Rodrigo Cartin‐Ceba, Grace Lin, Kymberly D. Watt, Michael J. Krowka – 16 June 2015 – Hepatopulmonary syndrome (HPS) and portopulmonary hypertension (POPH) are pulmonary vascular complications of portal hypertension with divergent clinicopathologic features and management. The presence of intrapulmonary vascular dilatations (IPVDs), detected by agitated saline contrast‐enhanced transthoracic echocardiography (cTTE), is an essential feature of HPS but is not typically characteristic of POPH.

Lily Dara, Heather Johnson, Jo Suda, Sanda Win, William Gaarde, Derick Han, Neil Kaplowitz – 16 June 2015 – Although necrosis in the acetaminophen (APAP) model is known to be regulated by c‐Jun NH2‐terminal kinase (JNK) through interaction with mitochondria, the role of necroptosis through receptor‐interacting proteins 1 and 3 (RIPK1 and RIPK3) has also been suggested. Our aim was to determine the relationship between these two mechanisms of cell death.

Roger F. Butterworth – 13 June 2015

Bulent Aydinli, Gurkan Ozturk, Sukru Arslan, Mecit Kantarci, Onder Tan, Ali Ahıskalioglu, Kemalettin Özden, Abdurrahim Colak – 13 June 2015 – Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is a chronic disease caused by ingestion of the eggs of the parasitic cestode Echinococcosis multilocularis (EM). In severe cases, liver transplantation (LT) may represent the only possibility of survival and cure. Patients undergoing LT associated with hepatic AE at our institution between April 2011 and October 2014 were investigated retrospectively.

Matteo Angelo Manini, Angelo Sangiovanni, Laura Martinetti, Davide Viganò, Vincenzo La Mura, Alessio Aghemo, Massimo Iavarone, Silvia Crespi, Antonio Nicolini, Massimo Colombo – 13 June 2015 – Transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) is the standard of care for the treatment of patients with an intermediate (Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer [BCLC] B) hepatocellular carcinoma and to bridge patients with an early cancer to liver transplantation (LT). We explored the efficacy of TACE with drug‐eluting beads (DEB) in BCLC A patients.

Melisa Dirchwolf, Jennifer L. Dodge, Jane Gralla, Kiran M. Bambha, Trevor Nydam, Kenneth W. Hung, Hugo R. Rosen, Sandy Feng, Norah A. Terrault, Scott W. Biggins – 13 June 2015 – Donor age has become the dominant donor factor used to predict graft failure (GF) after liver transplantation (LT) in hepatitis C virus (HCV) recipients. The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a model of corrected donor age (CDA) for HCV LT recipients that transforms the risk of other donor factors into the scale of donor age.

Lyna Zhang, Ajay Yesupriya, Man‐Huei Chang, Eyasu Teshale, Chong‐Gee Teo – 11 June 2015 – Hepatitis E viral (HEV) infection imposes a heavy health burden worldwide and is common in the United States. Previous investigations of risks addressed environmental and host behavioral/lifestyle factors, but host genetic factors have not been examined.