Markus Selzner, Arash Kashfi, Nazia Selzner, Stuart McCluskey, Paul D. Greig, Mark S. Cattral, Gary A. Levy, Les Lilly, Eberhard L. Renner, George Therapondos, Lesley E. Adcock, David R. Grant, Ian D. McGilvray – 29 September 2009 – We studied the role of donor and recipient age in transplantation/ischemia‐reperfusion injury (TIRI) and short‐ and long‐term graft and patient survival. Eight hundred twenty‐two patients underwent deceased donor liver transplantation, with 197 donors being ≥60 years old.

Frédéric Schnell, Erwan Donal, Richard Lorho, Sylvain Lavoué, Arnaud Gacouin, Philippe Compagnon, Karim Boudjema, Philippe Mabo, Yves Le Tulzo, Christophe Camus – 29 September 2009 – Left‐sided heart failure (LHF) after liver transplantation (LT) is rare and poorly understood. We performed a case‐control study. We reviewed the data of all patients with LHF after LT at our center from November 2000 to July 2007. Each case was matched to 1 LT control without LHF for age, sex, date of transplantation, and liver disease. Twenty of 599 patients developed LHF (3.3%).

Ashish Singhal, Neerav Goyal, Vivek Vij Subash Gupta – 29 September 2009

Mario Fernández‐Ruiz, Francisco López‐Medrano, Eva María Romo, Luis María Allende, Juan Carlos Meneu, Yiliam Fundora‐Suárez, Rafael San‐Juan, Manuel Lizasoain, Estela Paz‐Artal, Jose María Aguado – 29 September 2009 – Patients with end‐stage liver disease (ESLD) show a low absolute number of peripheral blood lymphocyte subpopulations (PBLSs). We investigated if the baseline PBLS could categorize orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) recipients into groups at high or low risk for infection after transplantation.

Paula Buchanan, Nino Dzebisashvili, Krista L. Lentine, David A. Axelrod, Mark A. Schnitzler, Paolo R. Salvalaggio – 29 September 2009 – We examined the relationship between the total cost incurred by liver transplantation (LT) recipients and their Model for End‐Stage Liver Disease (MELD) score at the time of transplant. We used a novel database linking billing claims from a large private payer with the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network registry. Included were adults who underwent LT from March 2002 through August 2007 (n = 990).

Nicholas A. Shackel – 29 September 2009

Yu‐Fan Cheng, Hsin‐You Ou, Leo Leung‐Chit Tsang, Chun‐Yen Yu, Tung‐Liang Huang, Tai‐Yi Chen, Allan Concejero, Chee‐Chien Yong, Chao‐Long Chen – 29 September 2009

J. Christie Heller, Allan V. Prochazka, Gregory T. Everson, Lisa M. Forman – 29 September 2009 – As long‐term survival after liver transplantation increases, metabolic complications are becoming increasingly prevalent. Given concerns about which group of providers should be managing liver recipients and how well metabolic complications are managed, we administered a postal survey to 280 transplant hepatologists to determine attitudes, perceptions, and practice patterns in the management of metabolic complications after transplantation. The response rate was 68.2%.

Olivier de Rougemont, Kuno Lehmann, Pierre‐Alain Clavien – 29 September 2009 – Ischemia and reperfusion lead to injury of the liver. Ischemia‐reperfusion injury is inevitable in liver transplantation and trauma and, to a great extent, in liver resection. This article gives an overview of the mechanisms involved in this type of injury and summarizes protective and treatment strategies in clinical use today. Intervention is possible at different time points: during harvesting, during the period of preservation, and during implantation.

Eric Levesque, Faouzi Saliba, Sonia Benhamida, Philippe Ichaï, Daniel Azoulay, René Adam, Denis Castaing, Didier Samuel – 29 September 2009 – Indocyanine green clearance (Cl‐ICG) has been used to assess liver function and hepatic blood flow mainly before and after hepatic surgery. Cl‐ICG (invasive method) has been reported to be a good marker of early graft function after liver transplantation (LT).