Nurten Savas, Mehmet Coskun, Banu Bilezikci, Irfan Uruc, Hamdi Karakayali, Ugur Yilmaz, Mehmet Haberal – 26 March 2008 – Living donor liver transplantation has acquired widespread acceptance. A thorough workup of the potential living donor is guided by 2 objectives: the first is ensuring the safety of the surgical procedure for the donor, and the second is identifying donor grafts that pose potential risks for the recipient. Of 305 living‐related liver donors, liver biopsy was performed in 201.

Michael Ramsay – 26 March 2008

Mariapia Vairetti, Andrea Ferrigno, Vittoria Rizzo, Eleonora Boncompagni, Amedeo Carraro, Enrico Gringeri, Gloria Milanesi, Sergio Barni, Isabel Freitas, Umberto Cillo – 26 March 2008 – This study compares the effects of machine perfusion (MP) at different temperatures with simple cold storage. In addition, the role of Ca2+ levels in the MP medium was evaluated. For MP, rat livers were perfused for 6 hours with Krebs‐Henseleit (KH) solution (with 1.25 or 2.5 mM CaCl2) at 4°C, 10°C, 20°C, 25°C, 30°C, or 37°C.

Lorenzo Norberto, Andrew Burroughs, Lino Polese – 26 March 2008

Maria Elena Fortes, Cláudio Augusto Marroni, Pedro Luis Coser, Carlos Abaeté de los Santos – 26 March 2008 – The aim of the study was to disclose a possible association of hearing defects with the use of either cyclosporin (CyA) or tacrolimus (FK‐506) in patients undergoing liver transplantation (LT). Pure‐tone audiometry (PTA) was performed in the same 42 patients before and after LT. Audiometric frequencies recorded ranged from 250 to 8000 Hz. Patients were divided into 2 groups according to the use of CyA (n = 18) or FK‐506 (n = 24).

Ayako Tsuchiya, Masahide Yazaki, Fuyuki Kametani, Yo‐ichi Takei, Shu‐ichi Ikeda – 26 March 2008 – To elucidate whether the amount of tissue‐deposited amyloid in familial amyloid polyneuropathy (FAP) patients decreases or increases over the long‐term course after liver transplantation (LT), we examined changes in histopathological and biochemical characteristics of abdominal fat amyloid in the transplanted patients with a postoperative history of more than 10 years.

Vicky Lee Ng, Anthony R. Otley – 26 March 2008

Chun‐Tao Wai, Kang‐Hoe Lee, Kai‐Chah Tan – 26 March 2008

Yaakov Nahmias, Martin L. Yarmush, Raymond T. Chung – 26 March 2008

Michael Adler, Filip De Pauw, Pierre Vereerstraeten, Agnese Fancello, Jan Lerut, Peter Starkel, Hans Van Vlierberghe, Roberto Troisi, Vincent Donckier, Olivier Detry, Jean Delwaide, Peter Michielsen, Thierry Chapelle, Jacques Pirenne, Frederik Nevens – 26 March 2008 – Although hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has become a recognized indication for liver transplantation, the rules governing priority and access to the waiting list are not well defined.