Jeffrey Campsen, Michael A. Zimmerman, James F. Trotter, Michael Wachs, Thomas Bak, Tracy Steinberg, Maria Kaplan, Franklin Wright, Igal Kam – 28 August 2008 – Our center has attempted to minimize corticosteroid (CS) use in all of our orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) recipients. Because patients with autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) typically require CSs after transplantation, we reviewed our experience in this cohort of patients to determine (1) patient outcomes including recurrent disease and (2) long‐term requirements for CS use in AIH patients.

Diethard Monbaliu, Louis Libbrecht, Rita De Vos, Katrien Vekemans, Hugo Walter, Qiang Liu, Veerle Heedfeld, Vera Goossens, Jacques Pirenne, Tania Roskams – 28 August 2008 – Livers exposed to prolonged warm ischemia (WI), such as those from non–heart‐beating donors (NHBDs), are at higher risk of primary graft nonfunction (PNF). In a pig model of liver transplantation (LTx) from NHBDs, hepatocellular vacuolation, focal hepatocyte dropout, congestion, and sinusoidal dilatation appeared on biopsies taken after exposure to WI.

David G. Bowen – 28 August 2008

Joel G. Fletcher, Luis S. Guimaraes, Jeff L. Fidler, Patrick S. Kamath – 28 August 2008

Jeremy F.L. Cobbold, Simon D. Taylor‐Robinson, I. Jane Cox – 28 August 2008

Nina Singh, Hsin‐Yun Sun – 28 August 2008 – The propensity of liver transplant recipients to develop more fulminant disease presentation and a higher risk of disseminated disease due to a number of opportunistic infections, including invasive aspergillosis, cryptococcosis, zygomycosis, may be related to iron overload. Abnormalities in iron homeostasis may also be a contributor to severe manifestations due to other pathogens such as cytomegalovirus and Staphylococcus aureus in liver transplant recipients.

Chung‐Mau Lo – 28 August 2008

Staffan Wahlin, Nirthiga Srikanthan, Børge Hamre, Pauline Harper, Atle Brun – 28 August 2008 – Erythropoietic protoporphyria is an inherited condition characterized by pronounced solar photosensitivity and in a minority of patients severe liver disease that necessitates liver transplantation for survival. Phototoxic injury to abdominal organs and skin has been reported in several cases of liver transplantation surgery, including a few transplants in which protective light filters were used.

Surakit Pungpapong, David P. Nunes, Murli Krishna, Raouf Nakhleh, Kyle Chambers, Marwan Ghabril, Rolland C. Dickson, Christopher B. Hughes, Jeffery Steers, Justin H. Nguyen, Andrew P. Keaveny – 28 August 2008 – Although recurrent hepatitis C virus (HCV) after liver transplantation (LT) is universal, a minority of patients will develop cirrhosis within 5 years of surgery, which places them at risk for allograft failure.

Gi‐Young Ko, Kyu‐Bo Sung, Hyun‐Ki Yoon, Kyung Rae Kim, Dong Il Gwon, Sung Gyu Lee – 28 August 2008 – Endoscopic treatment has largely replaced surgery as the initial treatment for biliary strictures following living donor liver transplantation; however, this treatment is nearly impossible in patients who have previously undergone hepaticojejunostomy (HJ). We therefore retrospectively evaluated the efficacy of percutaneous transhepatic treatment in patients who developed HJ strictures following living donor liver transplantation.