De‐Ke Jiang, Xiao‐Pin Ma, Hongjie Yu, Guangwen Cao, Dong‐Lin Ding, Haitao Chen, Hui‐Xing Huang, Yu‐Zhen Gao, Xiao‐Pan Wu, Xi‐Dai Long, Hongxing Zhang, Youjie Zhang, Yong Gao, Tao‐Yang Chen, Wei‐Hua Ren, Pengyin Zhang, Zhuqing Shi, Wei Jiang, Bo Wan, Hexige Saiyin, Jianhua Yin, Yuan‐Feng Zhou, Yun Zhai, Pei‐Xin Lu, Hongwei Zhang, Xiaoli Gu, Aihua Tan, Jin‐Bing Wang, Xian‐Bo Zuo, Liang‐Dan Sun, Jun O. Liu, Qing Yi, Zengnan Mo, Gangqiao Zhou, Ying Liu, Jielin Sun, Yin Yao Shugart, S.

Katherine M. Shaffer, Mehul R. Parikh, Thomas M. Runge, Sebastian D. Perez, Sonali S. Sakaria, Ram M. Subramanian – 18 March 2015 – Renal dysfunction in cirrhosis carries a high morbidity and mortality. Given the potential risk of contrast‐induced nephropathy associated with iodinated intravenous contrast used in computed tomography (CT), alternate contrast modalities for abdominal imaging in liver transplant candidates need to be examined.

Patrice N. Mimche, Lauren M. Brady, Christian F. Bray, Choon M. Lee, Manoj Thapa, Thayer P. King, Kendra Quicke, Courtney D. McDermott, Sylvie M. Mimche, Arash Grakoui, Edward T. Morgan, Tracey J. Lamb – 17 March 2015 – Beyond the well‐defined role of the Eph (erythropoietin‐producing hepatocellular) receptor tyrosine kinases in developmental processes, cell motility, cell trafficking/adhesion, and cancer, nothing is known about their involvement in liver pathologies.

Javier Vaquero, Rafael Bañares – 17 March 2015

Christian Toso, Glenda Meeberg, Roberto Hernandez‐Alejandro, Jean‐François Dufour, Paul Marotta, Pietro Majno, Norman M. Kneteman – 17 March 2015 – The selection of liver transplantation (LT) candidates with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is currently validated based on Milan criteria. The use of extended criteria has remained a matter of debate, mainly because of the absence of prospective validation. The present prospective study recruited patients according to the previously proposed total tumor volume (TTV; ≤115 cm3)/alpha‐fetoprotein (AFP; ≤400 ng/mL) score.

Roongruedee Chaiteerakij, Xiaodan Zhang, Benyam D. Addissie, Essa A. Mohamed, William S. Harmsen, Paul J. Theobald, Brian E. Peters, Joseph G. Balsanek, Melissa M. Ward, Nasra H. Giama, Catherine D. Moser, Abdul M. Oseini, Naoki Umeda, Sudhakar Venkatesh, Denise M. Harnois, Michael R. Charlton, Hiroyuki Yamada, Shinji Satomura, Alicia Algeciras‐Schimnich, Melissa R. Snyder, Terry M. Therneau, Lewis R. Roberts – 17 March 2015 – Growing evidence suggests that pretransplant alpha‐fetoprotein (AFP) predicts outcomes of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients treated with liver transplantation.

Benjamin Samstein, Adam Griesemer, Daniel Cherqui, Tarek Mansour, Joseph Pisa, Anna Yegiants, Alyson N. Fox, James V. Guarrera, Tomoaki Kato, Karim J. Halazun, Jean Emond – 17 March 2015 – Living donor liver transplantation has failed to become a major means of transplantation in the United States, where <5% of the transplants are performed with living donors. At least 30% to 50% of the complications of donor hepatectomy appear to be related to abdominal wall trauma, including hernia, bowel obstruction, and chronic abdominal discomfort.

Xunyao Wu, Rui Sun, Yongyan Chen, Xiaodong Zheng, Li Bai, Zhexiong Lian, Haiming Wei, Zhigang Tian – 17 March 2015 – Commensal bacteria have been proposed to play a role in liver repair after partial (67%) hepatectomy. However, the underlying immune mechanisms remain elusive. Here, we show that liver regeneration was impaired in antibiotic (Atb) water‐treated mice and this impairment strongly correlated with commensal bacterial load. Among the various Atbs used in our cocktail, ampicillin‐sensitive commensal bacterial was associated with normal liver regeneration.

Patrizia Zavattari, Andrea Perra, Silvia Menegon, Marta Anna Kowalik, Annalisa Petrelli, Maria Maddalena Angioni, Antonia Follenzi, Luca Quagliata, Giovanna Maria Ledda‐Columbano, Luigi Terracciano, Silvia Giordano, Amedeo Columbano – 17 March 2015 – Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) develops through a multistage process, but the nature of the molecular changes associated with the different steps, the very early ones in particular, is largely unknown.

Hartmut Jaeschke, Kuo Du – 17 March 2015