Giuseppe Cullaro, Pratima Sharma, Jennifer Jo, Jasmine Rassiwala, Lisa B. VanWagner, Randi Wong, Jennifer C. Lai, John Magee, Aaron Schluger, Pranab Barman, Yuval A. Patel, Kara Walter, Scott W. Biggins, Elizabeth C. Verna – 14 July 2021 – We aimed to understand the contemporary changes in the characteristics and the determinants of outcomes among simultaneous liver‐kidney transplantation (SLKT) recipients at 6 liver transplantation centers in the United States. We retrospectively enrolled SLKT recipients between 2002 and 2017 in the US Multicenter SLKT Consortium.

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Lukas Otero Sanchez, Eleni Karakike, Christophe Moreno, Eric Trépo, Thierry Gustot – 13 July 2021

Ankur Jindal – 13 July 2021

There is increasing interest to integrate palliative care (PC) within routine practice of decompensated cirrhosis to enhance and inform clinical care. It has shown to improve patient- provider communication, provider awareness of symptoms, tailored symptom management enhance quality of life, ultimately with a better end of life care. There is minimal knowledge on what key elements of PC can inform care, particularly if advance care planning (ACP) has a role to play within Transplant Evaluation.Arpan A. Patel Aran A.

Bess M. Miller, Isaac M. Oderberg, Wolfram Goessling – 12 July 2021 – The liver is innervated by autonomic and sensory fibers of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems that regulate liver function, regeneration, and disease. Although the importance of the hepatic nervous system in maintaining and restoring liver homeostasis is increasingly appreciated, much remains unknown about the specific mechanisms by which hepatic nerves both influence and are influenced by liver diseases.

Mark S. Sulkowski, Juhi S. Moon, Kenneth E. Sherman, Giuseppe Morelli, Jama M. Darling, Andrew J. Muir, Mandana Khalili, Dawn A. Fishbein, Federico Hinestrosa, Mitchell L. Shiffman, Adrian Di Bisceglie, K. Rajender Reddy, Brian Pearlman, Anna S. Lok, Michael W. Fried, Paul W. Stewart, Joy Peter, Summer Wadsworth, Scott Kixmiller, Anquenette Sloan, Monika Vainorius, Patrick M. Horne, Larry Michael, Meichen Dong, Donna M. Evon, Jodi B. Segal, David R. Nelson, the PRIORITIZE Study Team – 12 July 2021

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.

Neeral L. Shah, Jennifer B. Miller, Richard S. Kalman, Sonal Kumar – 11 July 2021

Michel Bazinet, Mark Anderson, Victor Pântea, Gheorghe Placinta, Iurie Moscalu, Valentin Cebotarescu, Lilia Cojuhari, Pavlina Jimbei, Liviu Iarovoi, Valentina Smesnoi, Tatina Musteata, Alina Jucov, Ulf Dittmer, Jeff Gersch, Vera Holzmayer, Mary Kuhns, Gavin Cloherty, Andrew Vaillant – 9 July 2021 – Therapy with nucleic acid polymers (NAPs), tenofovir disoproxil fumarate (TDF), and pegylated interferon (pegIFN) achieve high rates of HBsAg loss/seroconversion and functional cure in chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection.