Teruhime Otoguro, Tomohisa Tanaka, Hirotake Kasai, Nobuhiro Kobayashi, Atsuya Yamashita, Takasuke Fukuhara, Akihide Ryo, Moto Fukai, Akinobu Taketomi, Yoshiharu Matsuura, Kohji Moriishi – 19 December 2020 – Compared with each monoinfection, coinfection with hepatitis B virus (HBV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) is well known to increase the risks of developing liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. However, the mechanism by which HBV/HCV coinfection is established in hepatocytes is not well understood.

Frank A. Anania, Lara Dimick‐Santos, Ruby Mehta, Joseph Toerner, Julie Beitz – 19 December 2020

Cristina R. Bosoi, Milène Vandal, Marine Tournissac, Manon Leclerc, Hortense Fanet, Patricia L. Mitchell, Mélanie Verreault, Jocelyn Trottier, Jessica Virgili, Cynthia Tremblay, H. Robert Lippman, Jasmohan S. Bajaj, Olivier Barbier, André Marette, Frédéric Calon – 18 December 2020 – Obesity and diabetes are strongly associated not only with fatty liver but also cognitive dysfunction. Moreover, their presence, particularly in midlife, is recognized as a risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease (AD).

Tingting Jiang, Francisco J. Sánchez‐Rivera, Yadira M. Soto‐Feliciano, Qiyuan Yang, Chun‐Qing Song, Arjun Bhuatkar, Cole M Haynes, Michael T. Hemann, Wen Xue – 17 December 2020

Antonio Saviano, Florian Wrensch, Marc G. Ghany, Thomas F. Baumert – 17 December 2020 – Infection with the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2), a novel coronavirus that emerged in late 2019, is posing an unprecedented challenge to global health. Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19), the clinical disease caused by SARS‐CoV‐2, has a variable presentation ranging from asymptomatic infection to life‐threatening acute respiratory distress syndrome and multiorgan failure.

Paulo N. Martins, Pierre‐Alain Clavien, Rajiv Jalan, Davide Ghinolfi – 17 December 2020

On January 1, 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will be implementing significant changes to the outpatient evaluation and management (E/M) codes (CPT® codes 99202-99215) for new and established patients. The agency revised both the documentation requirements and values. Practices, physicians, and staff must understand these modifications to ensure a successful transition next year. To help prepare, AASLD is holding a webinar to explain these changes, including how to correctly bill and document the revised code set, on December 15 at 3pm ET.

Sasha Deutsch‐Link, Ethan M. Weinberg, Therese Bittermann, Mackenzie McDougal, Aniket Dhariwal, Lauren S. Jones, Robert M. Weinrieb, Arpita G. Banerjee, Senayish Addis, Marina Serper – 15 December 2020 – The Stanford Integrated Psychosocial Assessment for Transplant (SIPAT) is a standardized psychosocial evaluation tool used in liver transplantation (LT) evaluation. We assessed the impact of the SIPAT score and subdomains on transplant waitlisting decisions and post‐LT outcomes including immunosuppression (IS) nonadherence, biopsy‐proven rejection, andmortality/graft failure.

André Viveiros, Vincent Beliveau, Marlene Panzer, Benedikt Schaefer, Bernhard Glodny, Benjamin Henninger, Herbert Tilg, Heinz Zoller, Christoph Scherfler – 14 December 2020 – Clinical presentation of Wilson disease (WD) includes hepatic and neurologic manifestations. This study compares subcortical brain regions by magnetic resonance imaging in patients with WD and without neurological symptoms. Distinct atrophy affecting the basal ganglia, accumbens, and hippocampus was present in neurological WD. Cerebellar atrophy was observed in hepatic WD without neurological symptoms.

Lisa B. VanWagner, Elisa Gordon, Lindsay Adamski, Megan Kosirog, Amna Daud, Daniel J. Finn, Donald M. Lloyd‐Jones, Jane L. Holl – 14 December 2020 – Liver transplant recipients (LTRs) are at high risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD). We sought to characterize LTR, informal caregiver, and health care provider perceptions about CVD care after liver transplantation (LT) to inform the design of solutions to improve care.