Sheida Moghadamrad, Matteo Montani, Rosemarie Weimann, Andrea De Gottardi – 27 February 2013 – Cholestasis with normal gamma glutamyl transferase characterizes functional deficiencies in the gene ABCB11, which encodes the bile salt export pump (BSEP), a liver‐specific adenosine triphosphate (ATP)‐binding cassette transporter. Here we report the case of a patient presenting with features of benign recurrent intrahepatic cholestasis associated with a heterozygous mutation in the ABCB11 gene.

Umberto Arena, Monica Lupsor Platon, Cristina Stasi, Stefania Moscarella, Alì Assarat, Giorgio Bedogni, Valeria Piazzolla, Radu Badea, Giacomo Laffi, Fabio Marra, Alessandra Mangia, Massimo Pinzani – 27 February 2013 – Transient elastography (TE) is increasingly employed in clinical practice for the noninvasive detection of tissue fibrosis in patients with chronic liver disease (CLD), and particularly chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV)‐related hepatitis.

Shunsuke Muramatsu, Shinji Tanaka, Kaoru Mogushi, Rama Adikrisna, Arihiro Aihara, Daisuke Ban, Takanori Ochiai, Takumi Irie, Atsushi Kudo, Noriaki Nakamura, Koh Nakayama, Hiroshi Tanaka, Shoji Yamaoka, Shigeki Arii – 27 February 2013 – Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is one of the most aggressive malignancies because of recurrence and/or metastasis even after curative resection. Emerging evidence suggests that tumor metastasis and recurrence might be driven by a small subpopulation of stemness cells, so‐called cancer stem cells (CSCs).

Ian Harnik, Yosef Golowa, Hatef Massoumi – 27 February 2013

David G. Bowen, Nicholas A. Shackel – 27 February 2013

Marko Simonen, Ville Männistö, Joel Leppänen, Dorota Kaminska, Vesa Kärjä, Sari Venesmaa, Pirjo Käkelä, Johanna Kuusisto, Helena Gylling, Markku Laakso, Jussi Pihlajamäki – 27 February 2013 – Dysregulation of the cholesterol synthesis pathway and accumulation of cholesterol in the liver are linked to the pathogenesis of nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH). Therefore, we investigated the association of serum and liver levels of cholesterol precursors with NASH.

Thierry Claudel, Michael Trauner – 27 February 2013

Sarwa Darwish Murad, Julie K. Heimbach, Gregory J. Gores, Charles B. Rosen, Joanne T. Benson, W. Ray Kim – 27 February 2013 – Patients with perihilar cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) undergoing neoadjuvant chemoradiation followed by liver transplantation (LT) have excellent survival. However, little is known about their quality of life (QOL). We assessed the QOL of these patients and compared it to the QOL of patients who underwent transplantation for other liver diseases. From 1993 to 2010, 129 CCA patients underwent LT, and 93 (72%) were alive as of November 2010.

Ian Harnik, Yosef Golowa, Hatef Massoumi – 27 February 2013

Peixiang Lan, Cai Zhang, Qiuju Han, Jian Zhang, Zhigang Tian – 27 February 2013 – Hepatitis B virus (HBV) persistence aggravates hepatic immunotolerance, leading to the failure of cell‐intrinsic type I interferon and antiviral response, but whether and how HBV‐induced hepatocyte‐intrinsic tolerance influences systemic adaptive immunity has never been reported, which is becoming the major obstacle for chronic HBV therapy.