Jayant A. Talwalkar – 15 February 2014 – The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), along with the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act, was signed into law and upheld by the Supreme Court earlier this year. The ACA contains a variety of reforms that, if implemented, will significantly affect current models of healthcare delivery for patients with acute and chronic hepatobiliary diseases.
Ewa Wunsch, Jocelyn Trottier, Malgorzata Milkiewicz, Joanna Raszeja‐Wyszomirska, Gideon M. Hirschfield, Olivier Barbier, Piotr Milkiewicz – 12 February 2014 – Ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) is no longer recommended for management of adult patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC). We undertook a prospective evaluation of UDCA withdrawal in a group of consecutive patients with PSC. Twenty six patients, all treated with UDCA (dose range: 10‐15 mg/kg/day) were included.
Ewa Wunsch, Jocelyn Trottier, Malgorzata Milkiewicz, Joanna Raszeja‐Wyszomirska, Gideon M. Hirschfield, Olivier Barbier, Piotr Milkiewicz – 12 February 2014 – Ursodeoxycholic acid (UDCA) is no longer recommended for management of adult patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC). We undertook a prospective evaluation of UDCA withdrawal in a group of consecutive patients with PSC. Twenty six patients, all treated with UDCA (dose range: 10‐15 mg/kg/day) were included.
Mickaël Lesurtel, Pierre‐Alain Clavien – 12 February 2014
Ozlem Kucukoglu, Nurdan Guldiken, Yu Chen, Valentyn Usachov, Amin El‐Heliebi, Johannes Haybaeck, Helmut Denk, Christian Trautwein, Pavel Strnad – 12 February 2014 – Mallory‐Denk bodies (MDBs) are protein aggregates consisting of ubiquitinated keratins 8/18 (K8/K18). MDBs are characteristic of alcoholic and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and discriminate between the relatively benign simple steatosis and the more aggressive NASH.
Julien Vergniol, Jérôme Boursier, Clélia Coutzac, Sandrine Bertrais, Juliette Foucher, Camille Angel, Faiza Chermak, Isabelle Fouchard Hubert, Wassil Merrouche, Frédéric Oberti, Victor Lédinghen, Paul Calès – 12 February 2014 – No data are available about the prediction of long‐term survival using repeated noninvasive tests of liver fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C (CHC). We aimed to assess the prognostic value of 3‐year liver stiffness measurement (LSM), aspartate aminotransferase to platelet ratio index (APRI), and fibrosis 4 (FIB‐4) evolution in CHC.
Gin‐Ho Lo – 12 February 2014
Terence Kin‐Wah Lee, Vincent Chi‐Ho Cheung, Ping Lu, Eunice Yuen Ting Lau, Stephanie Ma, Kwan Ho Tang, Man Tong, Jessica Lo, Irene Oi Lin Ng – 12 February 2014 – Identification of therapeutic targets against tumor‐initiating cells (TICs) is a priority in the development of new therapeutic paradigms against cancer. We enriched a TIC population capable of tumor initiation and self‐renewal by serial passages of hepatospheres with chemotherapeutic agents. In chemoresistant hepatospheres, CD47 was found to be up‐regulated, when compared with differentiated progenies.
Hidenori Toyoda, Takashi Kumada, Toshifumi Tada – 12 February 2014