Thierry Claudel, Michael Trauner – 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.

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

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

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).

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.

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.

Albert C. Y. Chan, See Ching Chan, Kenneth S. H. Chok, Tan To Cheung, Dai Wing Chiu, Ronnie T. P. Poon, Sheung Tat Fan, Chung Mau Lo – 27 February 2013 – The objective of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of salvage liver transplantation (SLT), repeated hepatic resection (RR), and repeated radiofrequency ablation (rRFA) for patients with postoperative tumor recurrence. The optimal treatment strategy for patients with recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remains unclear.

M. Susan Mandell, Elizabeth A. Pomfret, Randall Steadman, Ryutaro Hirose, David J. Reich, Roman Schumann, Ann Walia – 27 February 2013 – A new Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network/United Network for Organ Sharing bylaw recommends that all centers appoint a director of liver transplant anesthesia with a uniform set of criteria. We obtained survey data from the Liver Transplant Anesthesia Consortium so that we could compare existing criteria for a director in the United States with the current recommendations.