Ed Day, David Best, Ruth Sweeting, Rebecca Russell, Kerry Webb, George Georgiou, James Neuberger – 29 October 2008 – Transplantation for alcoholic liver disease is becoming increasingly common, and with adequate screening, short‐ to medium‐term outcomes are very good. However, while conducting a prospective study of the outcome of liver transplantation in Birmingham, United Kingdom, we observed that a research diagnosis of alcohol abuse or dependence was made in a number of cases in which no reference to alcohol problems had been made by the referring agency.

Joseph Ahn, Stanley M. Cohen – 29 October 2008 – In November 2007, a liver transplant recipient was confirmed to have human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis C (HCV) infection after the organ procurement agency notified our institution that the donor has been HIV and HCV positive. We reviewed medical records and the collected blood sample results for HIV and HCV testing. A 66 year old female with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis cirrhosis underwent liver transplantation. The donor was a male who had sex with men who received multiple blood transfusions during resuscitation.

Walid Faraj, Faisal Dar, Gabriele Marangoni, Adam Bartlett, Hector Vilca Melendez, Dino Hadzic, Anil Dhawan, Georgina Mieli‐Vergani, Mohamed Rela, Nigel Heaton – 29 October 2008 – From October 1993 to February 2007, 25 liver transplantations were performed for hepatoblastoma. Of these 25, 18 children received cadaveric grafts, and 7 received left lateral segments from living donors.

Jasmohan S. Bajaj, Kia Saeian, Muhammad Hafeezullah, Jose Franco, Andrea Thompson, Rebecca Anderson – 29 October 2008 – The prevention of recidivism in alcoholic liver disease is one of the aims of pretransplant psychological evaluation (PE). Failure to fully disclose the extent of alcohol use is evidence of ongoing alcoholism. Driving under the influence (DUI) represents objective evidence of alcohol abuse, but verifying DUIs through official records is not standard during PE.

Bo Feng, Shengming Wu, Sa Lv, Junjian Fang, Feng Liu, Yu Li, Yan Gao, Xianzhong Yan, Fangting Dong, Lai Wei – 29 October 2008 – Fulminant hepatic failure (FHF) is one of the most challenging gastrointestinal emergencies encountered in clinical practice. Early identification of patients with FHF who need liver transplantation is very important. To construct a prediction model for the early diagnosis and prognosis of FHF, we studied the dynamics of metabolic intermediates and metabolic profiles with a D‐galactosamine (GalN)/lipopolysaccharide (LPS)–treated BALB/c mouse model of FHF.

Hugo E. Vargas, Lois Krahn – 29 October 2008

Florian Kühnel, Stefan Kubicka – 29 October 2008

Markus Golling, Heidi Kellner, Hamidreza Fonouni, Morva Tahmasbi Rad, Renate Urbaschek, Raoul Breitkreutz, Martha Maria Gebhard, Arianeb Mehrabi – 29 October 2008 – Although the use of non–heart‐beating donors (NHBD) is the oldest type of organ transplantation, the results were and still are disappointing. To consider using a liver from NHBD, it is of importance to assess the graft viability. Our aim was to assess the role of reduced liver glutathione (rGSHL) as a potential predictive marker of liver function before transplantation.

Frank Tacke, Ralf Weiskirchen, Christian Trautwein – 29 October 2008

Ying Jiang, Paul J. Villeneuve, Stanley S. A. Fenton, Douglas E. Schaubel, Les Lilly, Yang Mao – 29 October 2008 – Characterization of the long‐term cancer risks among liver transplant patients has been hampered by the paucity of sufficiently large cohorts. The increase over time in the number of liver transplants coupled with improved survival underscores the need to better understand associated long‐term health effects. This is a cohort study whose subjects were assembled with data from the population‐based Canadian Organ Replacement Registry.