Sudeep R. Shah, James Dooley, Raj Agarwal, David Patch, Andrew K. Burroughs, Keith Rolles, Brian R. Davidson – 30 December 2003 – The value of routinely performing endoscopic retrograde cholangiography (ERC) to detect biliary complications in patients undergoing orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT) with duct‐to‐duct anastomosis without a T‐tube is not known. Eighty‐nine of 171 liver transplant recipients (61 men; mean age, 49.9 years) underwent ERC 14.5 ± 4.5 (SD) days after surgery between January 1997 and August 1999.

David Mutimer – 30 December 2003

Katsuhiko Yanaga, Yukio Kamohara, Mitsuhisa Takatsuki, Junichiro Furui, Takashi Kanematsu – 30 December 2003 – A modified technique is described in clamping the right branch of the portal vein in right hepatic lobectomy for live donation or neoplasm that allows flush division of the origin of the right branch without causing portal vein stenosis.

Thomas M. Fishbein, Sander Florman, Gabriel Gondolesi, Neal S. LeLeiko, Harold A. Mitty, Allan Tschernia, Stuart S. Kaufman – 30 December 2003 – Late technical complications of composite liver/small bowel transplantation procedures are often complex and have not been well defined. Here we describe the unusual presentation and management of two cases of recurrent thrombocytopenia due to hypersplenism resulting from portacaval shunt stenosis. Both patients presented with portal hypertension late after composite liver/small bowel transplantation.

M. Susan Mandell, Dennis Lezotte, Igal Kam, Stacy Zamudio – 30 December 2003 – Postoperative ventilation and admission to the intensive care unit (ICU) is the standard of care in liver transplantation and comprises a significant proportion of transplantation costs. Because immediate postoperative extubation has been reported previously in a selected group of liver transplant recipients, we questioned whether this protocol could be extended to a larger group of patients.

Raghavakaimal Sreekumar, Deborah L. Rasmussen, Russell H. Wiesner, Michael R. Charlton – 30 December 2003 – Treatment of acute cellular rejection (ACR) is associated with increased viral load, more severe histologic recurrence, and diminished patient and graft survival after liver transplantation for hepatitis C virus (HCV). Recurrence of HCV may be difficult to distinguish histologically from ACR .

Monika Koch, Peter Banys – 30 December 2003

Ignazio R. Marino, Howard R. Doyle – 30 December 2003

Kyung‐Suk Suh, Seong Hoon Kim, Sang Beom Kim, Hyuk‐Joon Lee, Kuhn Uk Lee – 30 December 2003 – The goal of this study was to examine the safety and effectiveness of right lobectomy in living donor liver transplantation (LDLT). From January 1999 to January 2002, 100 cases of LDLT were performed at Seoul National University Hospital; 45 involved right lobectomy (RL), 17 involved extended left lobectomy (ELL), 37 involved left lateral segmentectomy (LLS), and 1 involved right posterior segmentectomy. The outcome of RL was compared with those of other types of hepatectomy.

James Neuberger – 30 December 2003