Ashokkumar Jain, Rajeev Sharma, Charlotte Ryan, Georgious Tsoulfas, Mark Orloff, Peter Abt, Randeep Kashyap, Pam Batzold, Lisa Sauberman, Saman Safadjou, Maureen Graham, Adel Bozorgzadeh – 30 January 2008 – With the current immunosuppressive regimens, graft loss secondary to immunological reasons after successful liver transplantation is a rarity; acute rejections, however, do occur, with the majority of them being steroid‐responsive.

Santiago Tome, Adnan Said, Michael R. Lucey – 30 January 2008

Toru Ikegami, Satoru Imura, Yusuke Arakawa, Mitsuo Shimada – 30 January 2008

Jacob Alexander, James D. Lord, Matthew M. Yeh, Carlos Cuevas, Ramasamy Bakthavatsalam, Kris V. Kowdley – 30 January 2008 – Orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) is the only effective treatment for end‐stage liver disease due to primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC). Recurrence of PSC has recently emerged as a leading cause of allograft failure in the long term. There is limited data on risk factors for recurrence of PSC. We performed a retrospective analysis of 69 consecutive patients who underwent a first OLT for PSC over a 14‐year period.

Sarwa Darwish Murad, Patrick S. Kamath – 30 January 2008

James D. Perkins – 30 January 2008

Jose L. del Pozo, Jose Ignacio Herrero, Andrea Manubens, Emilio Garcia‐Quetglas, Jose Ramon Yuste, Matias Alfonso, Jose Leiva, Jorge Quiroga, Jose Ramon Azanza – 30 January 2008

Elizabeth J. Carey, Manjushree Gautam, Timothy Ingall, David D. Douglas – 30 January 2008 – Autonomic dysfunction is a recognized complication of end‐stage liver disease (ESLD), but there is little information on how liver transplantation (LT) affects this problem. We sought to prospectively evaluate autonomic function in patients with ESLD before and after LT. Autonomic reflex screen (ARS) was performed on 30 patients with ESLD prior to transplantation. A 10‐point composite autonomic score (CAS) was calculated from these data.

Sheldon C. Cooper, Simon P. Olliff, Ian McCafferty, Stephen J. Wigmore, Darius F. Mirza – 30 January 2008 – This unique case reports the first recorded episode in the medical literature of vasculitis post‐liver transplantation, presenting as life‐threatening gastrointestinal hemorrhage. A 52‐year‐old Caucasian woman underwent orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) for autoimmune cirrhosis complicated by hepatoma and portal vein thrombosis. Late hepatic artery thrombosis led to a second liver graft.

Frank Ulrich, Johann Pratschke, Ulf Neumann, Andreas Pascher, Gero Puhl, Peter Fellmer, Sascha Weiss, Sven Jonas, Peter Neuhaus – 30 January 2008 – The long‐term results of liver transplantation for Budd‐Chiari syndrome (BCS) and timely indication for the procedure are still under debate. Innovations in interventional therapy and better understanding of underlying diseases have improved therapy strategies. The aim of this study was the analysis of patient and disease characteristics, outcome, and specific complications.