Vincent Donckier, Roberto Troisi, Alain Le Moine, Michel Toungouz, Salvatore Ricciardi, Isabelle Colle, Hans Van Vlierberghe, Ligia Craciun, Myriam Libin, Marleen Praet, Lucien Noens, Patrick Stordeur, Marc Andrien, Micheline Lambermont, Michel Gelin, Nadine Bourgeois, Michael Adler, Bernard de Hemptinne, Michel Goldman – 26 September 2006 – Long‐term results of organ transplantation are still limited by serious side effects of immunosuppressive drugs.

Hiroto Egawa, Koichi Tanaka, Mureo Kasahara, Yasutsugu Takada, Fumitaka Oike, Kohei Ogawa, Seisuke Sakamoto, Koichi Kozaki, Kaoru Taira, Takashi Ito – 26 September 2006 – Living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) for patients with portal vein thrombosis (PVT) involves technical difficulty. The aim of this research was to analyze their preoperative diagnosis of PVT, operative procedures, and postoperative courses of patients with preoperative PVT.

Jason Bauer, Stephen Johnson, Janette Durham, Michael Ludkowski, James Trotter, Thomas Bak, Michael Wachs – 26 September 2006 – The purpose of this research was to study the efficacy and outcomes of transjugular intrahepatic shunt (TIPS) in end‐stage liver disease (ESLD) patients with portal vein thrombosis (PVT) eligible for orthotopic liver transplant. Nine consecutive patients with PVT underwent TIPS as a nonemergent elective outpatient procedure. The primary indication for TIPS was to maintain portal vein patency for optimal surgical outcome.

Nyingi Kemmer, Guy Neff, Tiffany Kaiser, Victoria Zacharias, Mark Thomas, Amit Tevar, Supriya Satwah, Rakesh Shukla, Joseph Buell – 26 September 2006 – The current United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) criteria for liver transplantation gives priority to patients with elevated serum alpha‐fetoprotein (AFP; ≥ 500 ng/mL) in the absence of radiologic evidence of a hepatic mass. Reports have shown that an elevated serum AFP is a poor diagnostic indicator for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in patients with cirrhosis.

Paige Porrett, Abraham Shaked, Kim Olthoff – 26 September 2006

Zheyu Chen, Lunan Yan, Bo Li, Yong Zeng, Tianfu Wen, Jichun Zhao, Wentao Wang, Jiayin Yang, Yukui Ma, Jianwen Liu – 26 September 2006

Ashok Jain – 26 September 2006

Maria Varela, Alejandro Forner, Jordi Bruix – 26 September 2006

David C. Mulligan – 26 September 2006

James F. Trotter – 26 September 2006