Thomas D. Schiano, Tyler Bourgoise, Rosamond Rhodes – 4 February 2015 – In making liver transplantation (LT) listing decisions, transplant programs accept that very large differences in expected 5‐year posttransplant survival should matter and that small differences in expected survival should not matter. To date, the transplant community has not explicitly addressed the difficult question of how to make decisions when the differences are less dramatic.

C. Matthew Hawkins, Dennis W. W. Shaw, Patrick J. Healey, Simon P. Horslen, Andre A. S. Dick, Seth Friedman, Giridhar M. Shivaram – 3 February 2015 – The objective of this study was to determine which transabdominal ultrasound parameters correlate with portal vein stenosis (PVS) on percutaneous transhepatic portal venography in pediatric liver transplant patients. A retrospective review was performed of percutaneous transhepatic portal venograms performed between 2005 and 2013. The findings were compared to those from ultrasounds performed before venography and at the baseline.

Massimo Iavarone, Giuseppe Cabibbo, Marco Biolato, Cristina Della Corte, Marcello Maida, Marco Barbara, Michele Basso, Sara Vavassori, Antonio Craxì, Antonio Grieco, Carlo Cammà, Massimo Colombo – 2 February 2015 – Treatment with sorafenib of patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma is challenged by anticipated discontinuation due to tumor progression, liver decompensation, or adverse effects.

Qing Pang, Xin Sen Xu, Jing Yao Zhang, Kai Qu, Wei Chen, Chang Liu – 2 February 2015

Vincent Montoya, Andrea D. Olmstead, Naveed Z. Janjua, Patrick Tang, Jason Grebely, Darrel Cook, P. Richard Harrigan, Mel Krajden – 2 February 2015 – The ability to classify acute versus chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections at the time of diagnosis is desirable to improve the quality of surveillance information. The aim of this study was to differentiate acute from chronic HCV infections utilizing deep sequencing.

Augusto Villanueva, Anna Portela, Sergi Sayols, Carlo Battiston, Yujin Hoshida, Jesús Méndez‐González, Sandrine Imbeaud, Eric Letouzé, Virginia Hernandez‐Gea, Helena Cornella, Roser Pinyol, Manel Solé, Josep Fuster, Jessica Zucman‐Rossi, Vincenzo Mazzaferro, Manel Esteller, Josep M. Llovet, on behalf of the HEPTROMIC Consortium – 2 February 2015 – Epigenetic deregulation has emerged as a driver in human malignancies. There is no clear understanding of the epigenetic alterations in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and of the potential role of DNA methylation markers as prognostic biomarkers.

Naoko Kamo, Toshimi Kaido, Ahmed Hammad, Kohei Ogawa, Yasuhiro Fujimoto, Tadahiro Uemura, Akira Mori, Etsuro Hatano, Hideaki Okajima, Shinji Uemoto – 31 January 2015 – Elderly donor grafts for liver transplantation (LT) are recognized to be marginal grafts. The present study investigated the impact of using elderly donors for LT. Between June 1990 and August 2012, 1631 patients received LT at Kyoto University Hospital. Out of 1631 patients, 1597 patients received living donor liver transplantation (LDLT), whereas the other 34 patients underwent deceased donor liver transplantation (DDLT).

Yael Asman, Amy R. Evenson, Einat Even‐Sapir, Oren Shibolet – 31 January 2015 – Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the fifth most common cancer and the third most common cause of cancer‐related death worldwide. Orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) and resection are curative treatment options for well‐selected patients with HCC, whereas loco‐ablative therapy has been shown to prolong survival.

Erkan Parlak, Fahrettin Küçükay, Aydın Şeref Köksal, Ahmet Tarık Eminler, Mustafa İhsan Uslan, Sezai Yılmaz – 31 January 2015

Scott W. Biggins – 31 January 2015