DESCRIPTION There is currently an anticipated shortage of trained providers capable of diagnosing and treating different liver diseases. As a result of this increased demand and limited specialists in the field, more and more front-line providers are faced with these patients and do not have the experience or resources that will allow them to manage them appropriately.
Mazen Noureddin – 25 February 2021
Sarah Raevens, Maxine Boret, Michel De Pauw, Michael B. Fallon, Hans Van Vlierberghe – 25 February 2021 – Pulmonary disease in liver cirrhosis and portal hypertension (PH) constitutes a challenging clinical scenario and may have important implications with regard to prognosis, liver transplantation (LT) candidacy, and post‐LT outcome.
Mark Deneau – 25 February 2021
Huihui Ren, Fuqing Hu, Dan Wang, Xiaonan Kang, Xiaohui Feng, Lu Zhang, Bowen Zhou, Siyue Liu, Gang Yuan – 25 February 2021
Tianhong Su, Manling Huang, Junbin Liao, Shuibin Lin, Peng Yu, Jianhua Yang, Yuhong Cai, Shenghua Zhu, Lixia Xu, Zhenwei Peng, Sui Peng, Shuling Chen, Ming Kuang – 25 February 2021
Felicity R Williams, Don Milliken, Jennifer C Lai, Matthew J Armstrong – 25 February 2021 – Frailty has emerged as a powerful predictor of clinical outcomes (e.g., decompensation, hospitalization, mortality) in patients with end‐stage liver disease (ESLD). It is therefore of paramount importance that all patients with ESLD undergo an assessment of frailty, to support life and death decision making (i.e., candidacy for critical care, transplantation) and aid with prioritization of evolving prehabilitation services (i.e., nutrition, physiotherapy, psychotherapy).
Yin‐Ann Boo, Mei‐Hwei Chang, Yung‐Ming Jeng, Shinn‐Forng Peng, Wen‐Ming Hsu, Wen‐Hsi Lin, Huey‐Ling Chen, Yen‐Hsuan Ni, Hong‐Yuan Hsu, Jia‐Feng Wu – 25 February 2021 – Biliary atresia (BA) is a challenging liver disease in infancy. Early diagnosis of BA is important for timely hepatoportoenterostomy. We evaluated the age‐specific diagnostic performance of transient elastography (TE) with a liver stiffness measurement (LSM) greater than 7.7 kPa in BA among infants with cholestasis.
Binu V. John, Gabriella Aitcheson, Kaley B. Schwartz, Nidah S. Khakoo, Bassam Dahman, Yangyang Deng, David Goldberg, Paul Martin, Tamar H. Taddei, Cynthia Levy, David E. Kaplan – 25 February 2021
R. Todd Stravitz, Robert J. Fontana, Caitlyn Meinzer, Valerie Durkalski‐Mauldin, A. James Hanje, Jody Olson, David Koch, Bilal Hamid, Michael L. Schilsky, Brendan McGuire, Daniel Ganger, Iris Liou, Constantine J. Karvellas, Jody A. Rule, Ton Lisman, Kristin Clasen, Adrian Reuben, Michael Cripps, William M. Lee, ALF Study Group – 25 February 2021