Shin Hwang, Chul‐Soo Ahn, Gi‐Won Song, Ki‐Hun Kim, Deok‐Bog Moon, Heung‐Bum Oh, Young‐Suk Lim, Han Chu Lee, Tae‐Yong Ha, Dong‐Hwan Jung, Young‐Hwa Chung, Sung‐Gyu Lee – 3 December 2010 – A considerable proportion of liver transplantation recipients who receive hepatitis B immunoglobulin (HBIG) monotherapy for hepatitis B virus (HBV) prophylaxis develop resistance to HBIG. We retrospectively assessed the efficacy of HBV prophylaxis in 1524 patients who received primary high‐dose HBIG monotherapy (n = 1463) or with a preemptive antiviral add‐on as secondary combination therapy (n = 61).

Daniela E. Oprea‐Lager, Bastiaan J. Sorgdrager, J. Wouter Jukema, Roderick W. C. Scherptong, Jan Ringers, Minneke J. Coenraad, Bart van Hoek, Marcel P. M. Stokkel – 3 December 2010 – A cardiac evaluation before orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) is imperative. Previous investigations have demonstrated that mild to moderate reversible perfusion defects on myocardial perfusion scintigraphy (MPS) in general are associated with a low risk for perioperative cardiac events.

Noor Mohamed Jameel, Chinnasamy Thirunavukkarasu, Noriko Murase, Michael Cascio, John Prelich, Shuting Yang, Stephen A. K Harvey, Chandrashekhar R Gandhi – 29 November 2010 – Within the liver, reactive oxygen species produced by infiltrating blood cells and Kupffer cells (resident macrophages) can injure hepatocytes. We hypothesized that hepatocyte survival is influenced by the relatively small juxtaposed population of hepatic stellate cells (HSCs).

Jinoo Kim, Gi‐Young Ko, Kyu‐Bo Sung, Dong Il Gwon, Sung‐Gyu Lee, Kwang‐Mi Kim, Kyung‐Ah Kim, Hyun‐Ki Yoon – 29 November 2010 – This study evaluated the feasibility and efficacy of covered retrievable stent placement compared with drainage catheter placement for treating biliary anastomotic strictures following living donor liver transplantation (LDLT).

29 November 2010

Zhi‐Jun Zhu, Zhong‐Yang Shen, Wei Gao, Hong Zheng, Yong‐Lin Deng, Cheng Pan, Li‐Ying Sun, Zhi‐Gui Zeng, Ji‐San Sun – 29 November 2010 – Use of livers infected with Clonorchis sinensis as donor organs for transplantation is controversial because of the potential associated risks. The low availability of donor livers at Tianjin First Center Hospital since 2003 prompted us to undertake cadaveric liver transplantation in 14 patients using donor livers infected with C. sinensis.

Yue Wang, Yingjun Guo, Fang Wang, Shuhan Sun – 24 November 2010

Vincent W. Keng, Barbara R. Tschida, Jason B. Bell, David A. Largaespada – 24 November 2010 – The mechanisms associated with hepatitis B virus (HBV)–induced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remain elusive, and there are currently no well‐established animal models for studying this disease. Using the Sleeping Beauty transposon as a delivery system, we introduced an oncogenic component of HBV, the hepatitis B virus X (HBx) gene, into the livers of fumarylacetoacetate hydrolase (Fah) mutant mice via hydrodynamic tail vein injections.

23 November 2010

Hong‐Fang Ji – 23 November 2010