CON: Should patients with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis fibrosis undergo bariatric surgery as a primary treatment?
Eric B. Newton, Jason Pan, Waihong Chung – 21 July 2022
Emerging liquid biopsy techniques for early detection of hepatocellular carcinoma, prognostication, and disease monitoring
Ashwini Arvind, Amit G. Singal – 21 July 2022
Activin B promotes the initiation and progression of liver fibrosis
Yan Wang, Matthew Hamang, Alexander Culver, Huaizhou Jiang, Jennifer Yanum, Veronica Garcia, Joonyong Lee, Emily White, Praveen Kusumanchi, Naga Chalasani, Suthat Liangpunsakul, Benjamin C. Yaden, Guoli Dai – 21 July 2022 – The role of activin B, a transforming growth factor β (TGFβ) superfamily cytokine, in liver health and disease is largely unknown. We aimed to investigate whether activin B modulates liver fibrogenesis.
Impact of COVID‐19 pandemic on HCV care cascade in Rwanda: Ecological study from July 2019 to June 2021
Jean Damascene Makuza, Dahn Jeong, Phyumar Soe, Sofia Bartlett, Héctor A. Velásquez García, Mawuena Binka, Prince Adu, Donatha Dushimiyimana, Valentine Dushimiyimana, Clarisse Maliza, Marie Paul Nisingizwe, Gallican Rwibasira, Albert Tuyishime, Naveed Z. Janjua – 21 July 2022
Alloimmune versus autoimmune hepatitis following liver transplantation
Claire R. Harrington, Josh Levitsky – 21 July 2022
Natural history and management of refractory autoimmune hepatitis
Bridget Whitehead, Alyssa Kriegermeier – 21 July 2022
Improvement in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease through bariatric surgery
Emily Truong, Mazen Noureddin – 21 July 2022
Bile acid conjugation deficiency causes hypercholanemia, hyperphagia, islet dysfunction, and gut dysbiosis in mice
Bandar D. Alrehaili, Mikang Lee, Shogo Takahashi, Robert Novak, Bipin Rimal, Shannon Boehme, Samuel A. J. Trammell, Trisha J. Grevengoed, Devendra Kumar, Yazen Alnouti, Katya Chiti, Xinwen Wang, Andrew D. Patterson, John Y. L. Chiang, Frank J. Gonzalez, Yoon‐Kwang Lee – 21 July 2022 – Bile acid‐CoA: amino acid N‐acyltransferase (BAAT) catalyzes bile acid conjugation, the last step in bile acid synthesis. BAAT gene mutation in humans results in hypercholanemia, growth retardation, and fat‐soluble vitamin insufficiency.
Pneumocystis jiroveci pneumonia prophylaxis in patients with autoimmune hepatitis
Patrick Stauffer, Joseph Ahn – 21 July 2022
Rhesus rotavirus receptor‐binding site affects high mobility group box 1 release, altering the pathogenesis of experimental biliary atresia
Sujit K. Mohanty, Bryan Donnelly, Haley Temple, Sarah Mowery, Holly M. Poling, Jaroslaw Meller, Astha Malik, Monica McNeal, Greg Tiao – 21 July 2022 – Biliary atresia (BA) is a neonatal inflammatory cholangiopathy that requires surgical intervention by Kasai portoenterostomy to restore biliary drainage. Even with successful portoenterostomy, most patients diagnosed with BA progress to end‐stage liver disease, necessitating a liver transplantation for survival.