Deepak K. Ozhathil, You Fu Li, Jillian K. Smith, Jennifer F. Tseng, Reza F. Saidi, Adel Bozorgzadeh, Shimul A. Shah – 20 May 2011 – The use of high‐risk donor livers, which is reflective of the gross national shortage of organs available for transplantation, has gained momentum. Despite the demand, many marginal livers are discarded annually. We evaluated the impact of center volume on survival outcomes associated with liver transplantation using high–donor risk index (DRI) allografts.

Mary Ann Simpson, Julia Kendrick, Jennifer E. Verbesey, Denise S. Morin, Mary Amanda Dew, Agnes Trabucco, James J. Pomposelli, Elizabeth A. Pomfret – 20 May 2011 – All right hepatic lobe (RHL) donors in our program are asked to participate in a longitudinal quality‐of‐life study that begins at their evaluation and continues throughout the first postdonation year. Here we report the characteristics of donor candidates who completed the donation process despite ambivalence. In all, 183 RHL candidates consented, and 133 became donors.

Staffan Wahlin, Per Stal, Rene Adam, Vincent Karam, Robert Porte, Daniel Seehofer, Bridget K. Gunson, Jens Hillingsø, Jürgen L. Klempnauer, Jan Schmidt, Graeme Alexander, John O'Grady, Pierre‐Alain Clavien, Mauro Salizzoni, Andreas Paul, Keith Rolles, Bo‐Göran Ericzon, Pauline Harper, for the European Liver and Intestine Transplant Association – 20 May 2011 – Liver transplantation is an established lifesaving treatment for patients with severe protoporphyric liver disease, but disease recurrence in the graft occurs for the majority of recipients.

Bong‐Wan Kim, Weiguang Xu, Hee‐Jung Wang, Yong‐Keun Park, Kwangil Lee, Myung‐Wook Kim – 18 May 2011 – To determine the feasibility of volumetric criteria without anatomic exclusion for the selection of right posterior sector (RPS) grafts for adult‐to‐adult living donor liver transplantation (LDLT), we reviewed and compared our transplant data for RPS grafts and right lobe (RL) grafts.

Jason M. Vanatta, Kian A. Modanlou, Amanda G. Dean, Nosratollah Nezakatgoo, Luis Campos, Satheesh Nair, James D. Eason – 18 May 2011 – Hepatic sarcoidosis is a rare indication for liver transplantation. Using the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS)/Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) database, we evaluated patient and graft survival after orthotopic liver transplantation for sarcoidosis between October 1987 and December 2007.

Josep M. Llovet, Valerie Paradis, Masatoshi Kudo, Jessica Zucman‐Rossi – 18 May 2011

Giacomo Germani, Kurinchi Gurusamy, Matteo Garcovich, Christian Toso, Giuseppe Fede, Alan Hemming, Kyung‐Suk Suh, Achim Weber, Andrew Kenneth Burroughs – 16 May 2011

Norman Kneteman, Tito Livraghi, David Madoff, Eduardo de Santibañez, Michael Kew – 16 May 2011

Francis Y. Yao, Stefan Breitenstein, Christoph E. Broelsch, Jean‐Francois Dufour, Morris Sherman – 16 May 2011

Kwang‐Woong Lee, Seong Hoon Kim, Sung‐Sik Han, Young‐Kyu Kim, Seong Yeon Cho, Tae You, Sang‐Jae Park – 16 May 2011 – Over a period of 2 years, we used an upper midline incision (UMI) without laparoscopic assistance in 143 consecutive living donor partial hepatectomy (LDPH) procedures, regardless of the graft type or the donor age, sex, body mass index, or body shape. Here we report surgical recommendations based on our experience with the use of UMIs in this context.