Cold ischemia time is an important risk factor for post–liver transplant prolonged length of stay

Evelyn T. Pan, Dor Yoeli, N. Thao N. Galvan, Michael L. Kueht, Ronald T. Cotton, Christine A. O'Mahony, John A. Goss, Abbas Rana – 24 February 2018 – Risk analysis of cold ischemia time (CIT) in liver transplantation has largely focused on patient and graft survival. Posttransplant length of stay is a sensitive marker of morbidity and cost. We hypothesize that CIT is a risk factor for posttransplant prolonged length of stay (PLOS) and aim to conduct an hour‐by‐hour analysis of CIT and PLOS.

Elbasvir/grazoprevir and sofosbuvir for hepatitis C virus genotype 3 infection with compensated cirrhosis: A randomized trial

Graham R. Foster, Kosh Agarwal, Matthew E. Cramp, Sulleman Moreea, Stephen Barclay, Jane Collier, Ashley S. Brown, Stephen D. Ryder, Andrew Ustianowski, Daniel M. Forton, Ray Fox, Fiona Gordon, William M. Rosenberg, David J. Mutimer, Jiejun Du, Christopher L. Gilbert, Ernest Asante‐Appiah, Janice Wahl, Michael N. Robertson, Eliav Barr, Barbara Haber – 23 February 2018 – Many direct‐acting antiviral regimens have reduced activity in people with hepatitis C virus (HCV) genotype (GT) 3 infection and cirrhosis.

New scoring classification for primary biliary cholangitis–autoimmune hepatitis overlap syndrome

Wei Zhang, Debapriya De, Kahee A. Mohammed, Satish Munigala, Guilan Chen, Jin‐Ping Lai, Bruce R. Bacon – 20 February 2018 – Autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) and primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) are two major immune‐mediated chronic liver diseases. Overlap syndrome (OS) is diagnosed if patients have features of both AIH and PBC; however, there is no consensus on the definition or diagnostic criteria for OS. Here, we report a new scoring classification for OS and evaluate its usefulness.

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