Opioid Avoidance in Liver Transplant Recipients: Reduction in Postoperative Opioid Use Through a Multidisciplinary Multimodal Approach

Heather L. Kutzler, Richard Gannon, William Nolan, Leah Meisterling, Marbelia Cech, Danielle Gleason, Justin Uzl, Caroline Rochon, Bejon Maneckshana, Oscar K. Serrano, Jenifer Riley, David O’Sullivan, Eva Urtasun Sotil, Michael Einstein, Patricia Sheiner – 13 July 2020 – The prevalence of substance use disorder in the liver transplantation (LT) population makes postoperative pain management challenging. We report our initial experience with a novel, comprehensive, multidisciplinary opioid avoidance pathway in 13 LT recipients between January 2018 and September 2019.

Intestinal Virome in Patients With Alcoholic Hepatitis

Lu Jiang, Sonja Lang, Yi Duan, Xinlian Zhang, Bei Gao, Jessica Chopyk, Leila K. Schwanemann, Meritxell Ventura‐Cots, Ramon Bataller, Francisco Bosques‐Padilla, Elizabeth C. Verna, Juan G. Abraldes, Robert S. Brown, Victor Vargas, Jose Altamirano, Juan Caballería, Debbie L. Shawcross, Samuel B. Ho, Alexandre Louvet, Michael R. Lucey, Philippe Mathurin, Guadalupe Garcia‐Tsao, Tatiana Kisseleva, David A. Brenner, Xin M. Tu, Peter Stärkel, David Pride, Derrick E. Fouts, Bernd Schnabl – 12 July 2020

Gamma‐Glutamyltransferase Elevation Is Frequent in Patients With COVID‐19: A Clinical Epidemiologic Study

Tuo Shao, Yu Tong, Shushu Lu, Andre J. Jeyarajan, Feifei Su, Jianyi Dai, Jichan Shi, Jianping Huang, Chenchan Hu, Lianpeng Wu, Xianning Dai, Zhimeng Cheng, Jiuliang Yan, Peng Huang, Yanzhang Tian, Shasha Li, Raymond T. Chung, Dong Chen – 11 July 2020 – A newly identified coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2), which causes the infectious coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19), emerged in December 2019 in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, and now poses a major threat to global public health.

Gamma‐Glutamyltransferase Elevation Is Frequent in Patients With COVID‐19: A Clinical Epidemiologic Study

Tuo Shao, Yu Tong, Shushu Lu, Andre J. Jeyarajan, Feifei Su, Jianyi Dai, Jichan Shi, Jianping Huang, Chenchan Hu, Lianpeng Wu, Xianning Dai, Zhimeng Cheng, Jiuliang Yan, Peng Huang, Yanzhang Tian, Shasha Li, Raymond T. Chung, Dong Chen – 11 July 2020 – A newly identified coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2), which causes the infectious coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19), emerged in December 2019 in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China, and now poses a major threat to global public health.

Bilioenteric Reconstruction Techniques in Pediatric Living Donor Liver Transplantation

Murat Kilic, Can A. Karaca, Cahit Yilmaz, Rasim Farajov, Zaza Iakobadze, Kamil Kilic, Sema Aydogdu – 11 July 2020 – Biliary complications (BCs) are still a major cause of morbidity following liver transplantation despite the advancements in the surgical technique. Although Roux‐en‐Y (RY) hepaticojejunostomy has been the standard technique for years in pediatric patients, there is a limited number of reports on the feasibility of duct‐to‐duct (DD) anastomosis, and those reports have controversial outcomes.

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