Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Acute Hepatic Porphyrias: Results from the Longitudinal Study of the U.S. Porphyrias Consortium

Behnam Saberi, Hetanshi Naik, Jessica R. Overbey, Angelika L. Erwin, Karl E. Anderson, D. Montgomery Bissell, Herbert L. Bonkovsky, John D. Phillips, Bruce Wang, Ashwani K.Singal, Brendan M.McGuire, Robert J. Desnick, Manisha Balwani – 18 July 2020

Assessment and Transplantation of Orphan Donor Livers: A Back‐to‐Base Approach to Normothermic Machine Perfusion

Janske Reiling, Nick Butler, Andrew Simpson, Peter Hodgkinson, Catherine Campbell, David Lockwood, Kim Bridle, Nishreen Santrampurwala, Laurence Britton, Darrell Crawford, Cornelius H. C. Dejong, Jonathan Fawcett – 18 July 2020 – Globally, a large proportion of donor livers are discarded due to concerns over inadequate organ quality. Normothermic machine perfusion (NMP) allows for hepatocellular and biliary viability assessment prior to transplantation and might therefore enable the safe use of these orphan donor livers.

Liver Care and Surveillance: The Global Impact of the COVID‐19 Pandemic

Hidenori Toyoda, Daniel Q. Huang, Michael H. Le, Mindie H. Nguyen – 17 July 2020 – As social distancing and strict stay‐at‐home orders have been instituted to slow the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19), unintentional outcomes among those with chronic diseases including screening for the lethal hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) may be occurring. We aimed to describe the changes in liver care before and after COVID‐19 restricted access to health care.

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