Nicola Villanova, Simona Moscatiello, Stefano Ramilli, Elisabetta Bugianesi, Donatella Magalotti, Ester Vanni, Marco Zoli, Giulio Marchesini – 24 June 2005 – Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is consistently associated with features of the metabolic syndrome, a condition carrying a high risk of cardiovascular events. We measured the vasodilatory response of the brachial artery in response to ischemia (a test of endothelial function) (FMV) as well as cardiovascular risk profile in 52 NAFLD cases and 28 age‐ and sex‐matched controls.

Luis Ruiz‐del‐Arbol, Alberto Monescillo, Carlos Arocena, Paz Valer, Pere Ginès, Víctor Moreira, José María Milicua, Wladimiro Jiménez, Vicente Arroyo – 23 June 2005 – The pathogenic mechanism of hepatorenal syndrome is not well established. We investigated the circulatory function in cirrhosis before and after the development of hepatorenal syndrome.

Savita Srivastava, Zobair M. Younossi – 23 June 2005

Benjamin L. Shneider, Ezequiel Neimark, Tamara Frankenberg, Lindsay Arnott, Frederick J. Suchy, Sukru Emre – 22 June 2005 – The Pediatric End‐Stage Liver Disease (PELD) scoring system is a new nationally utilized formula developed to provide a continuous numerical assessment of the risk of death in order to allocate livers to children for transplantation.

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Norah Terrault, Bruno Roche, Didier Samuel – 22 June 2005

Russell H. Wiesner, Jolene S. Shorr, Bettina J. Steffen, Alice H. Chu, Robert D. Gordon, John R. Lake – 22 June 2005 – To evaluate the impact of mycophenolate mofetil (MMF) on long‐term outcomes of tacrolimus and corticosteroids, we analyzed data reported to the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients for 11,670 adult patients (3463 with hepatitis C [HCV]) who underwent primary, single‐organ, liver transplantation between 1995 and 2001.

Chung Mau Lo, Chi Leung Liu, George K. Lau, See Ching Chan, Irene O. Ng, Sheung Tat Fan – 22 June 2005 – Lamivudine treatment in patients with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection may improve clinical state and suppress viral replication before liver transplantation. Emergence of lamivudine‐resistant YMDD mutant is common. We report the results of liver transplantation in 16 patients with pretransplantation YMDD mutants after receiving lamivudine treatment for a median of 738 days (range, 400‐1799 days).

John A. Goss, Philip Seu, Feng Qin Gao, Samuel Wyllie – 22 June 2005 – The recently identified acute‐phase response antimicrobial peptide hepcidin has been postulated to maintain iron homeostasis by modulating iron absorption at both the intestinal and macrophage levels. Hepcidin has also been reported to be responsible for anemia associated with chronic inflammatory diseases, and in anemia in patients with hepatic adenomas.

Nicholas Onaca, Solly Mizrahi, Nathan Bar Nathan, Idan Burstein, Eytan Mor – 22 June 2005