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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Kyounghwa Jung, Minwook Kim, Juhoon So, Seung‐Hoon Lee, Sungjin Ko, Donghun Shin – 13 December 2020

Lavinija Matakovic, Qinghong Li, Sven C.D. Ijzendoorn – 13 December 2020

Yeonhee Cho, Gyongyi Szabo – 13 December 2020 – Neutrophils, the most abundant type of leukocyte in human blood, play a major role in host defense against invading pathogens and in sterile injury. Neutrophil infiltration is characteristic of inflammation because of its antimicrobial and cytotoxic activities. Neutrophils also actively participate in the resolution of inflammation and subsequent tissue repair by acting as a critical mediator between the inflammation and resolution phases of tissue damage.