Roberto Montalti, Antonio Mimmo, Gianluca Rompianesi, Valentina Serra, Nicola Cautero, Roberto Ballarin, Nicola De Ruvo, Robert Cunningham Gerring, Giorgio Enrico Gerunda, Fabrizio Di Benedetto – 10 October 2011 – Incisional hernias (IHs) are common complications after liver transplantation (LT) with a reported incidence of 1.7% to 34.3%. The purpose of this retrospective study was to evaluate the risk factors for IH development after LT with a focus on the role of immunosuppressive therapy during the first month after LT.

Jeffrey W. Molloy, Christopher J. Calcagno, Christopher D. Williams, Frances J. Jones, Dawn M. Torres, Stephen A. Harrison – 10 October 2011 – Coffee caffeine consumption (CC) is associated with reduced hepatic fibrosis in patients with chronic liver diseases, such as hepatitis C. The association of CC with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) has not been established. The aim of this study was to correlate CC with the prevalence and severity of NAFLD.

Katrien Vekemans, Diethard Monbaliu, Erika Balligand, Veerle Heedfeld, Ina Jochmans, Jacques Pirenne, Jos van Pelt – 10 October 2011 – Livers exposed to warm ischemia (WI) before transplantation are at risk for primary nonfunction (PNF), graft dysfunction, and ischemic biliary strictures, all associated with ischemia/reperfusion injury (IRI). Our multifactorial approach, Leuven drug protocol (LDP), has been shown to reduce these effects and increase recipient survival in WI/IRI‐damaged porcine liver transplantation.

Kiran Bambha, Patricia Belt, Maria Abraham, Laura A. Wilson, Mark Pabst, Linda Ferrell, Aynur Unalp‐Arida, Nathan Bass, for the Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis Clinical Research Network Research Group – 10 October 2011 – Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common liver disorder in the United States; however, few data are available about racial and ethnic variation. We investigated relationships between ethnicity, NAFLD severity, metabolic derangements, and sociodemographic characteristics in a well‐characterized cohort of adults with biopsy‐proven NAFLD.

Doan Y. Dao, Linda S. Hynan, He‐Jun Yuan, Corron Sanders, Jody Balko, Nahid Attar, Anna S.F. Lok, R. Ann Word, William M. Lee, the Acute Liver Failure Study Group – 10 October 2011 – Hepatitis B virus (HBV)‐related acute liver failure (HBV‐ALF) may occur after acute HBV infection (AHBV‐ALF) or during an exacerbation of chronic HBV infection (CHBV‐ALF). Clinical differentiation of the two is often difficult if a previous history of HBV is not available.

Carlo Spirli, Luigi Locatelli, Romina Fiorotto, Carola M. Morell, Luca Fabris, Tullio Pozzan, Mario Strazzabosco – 10 October 2011 – Mutations in polycystins (PC1 or PC2/TRPP2) cause progressive polycystic liver disease (PLD). In PC2‐defective mice, cyclic 3′,5′‐adenosine monophosphate/ protein kinase A (cAMP/PKA)‐dependent activation of extracellular signal‐regulated kinase/ mammalian target of rapamycin (ERK‐mTOR) signaling stimulates cyst growth.

Diarmaid D. Houlihan, Laurence J. Hopkins, Shankar X. Suresh, Matthew J. Armstrong, Philip N. Newsome – 10 October 2011

Isabelle Colle, Christophe Van Steenkiste – 10 October 2011

Liang Peng, Zhi‐liang Gao – 10 October 2011

Pramod Kadaba Srinivasan, Shintaro Yagi, Benedict Doorschodt, Kazuyuki Nagai, Mamdouh Afify, Shinji Uemoto, Rene Tolba – 10 October 2011 – The increasing shortage of donor organs has led to the increasing use of organs from non–heart‐beating donors. We aimed to assess the impact of venous systemic oxygen persufflation (VSOP) supplemented with nitric oxide (NO) gas during the cold storage (CS) of warm ischemia (WI)–damaged experimental liver grafts.