Sangbin Han, Sanghoon Lee, Ju Dong Yang, Michael Douglas Leise, Joong Hyun Ahn, Seonwoo Kim, Kangha Jung, Mi Sook Gwak, Gaab Soo Kim, Justin Sangwook Ko – 11 October 2017 – Platelets interact with tumor cells and promote metastasis. The importance of platelets in posttransplant hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) recurrence is unclear. Thus, we aimed to evaluate the association between preoperative platelet count (PLT) and HCC recurrence after living donor liver transplantation.

Nicolás Goldaracena, Andre Gorgen, Gonzalo Sapisochin – 11 October 2017 – Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) is the second most common liver cancer, and it is associated with a poor prognosis. CCA can be divided into intrahepatic, hilar, and distal. Despite the subtype, the median survival is 12‐24 months without treatment. Liver transplantation (LT) is recognized worldwide as a curative option for hepatocellular carcinoma. On the other hand, the initial results for LT for CCA were very poor mainly due to a lack of adequate patient selection.

Neil Mehta, Francis Y. Yao – 11 October 2017

James F. Trotter – 11 October 2017

Sarah Shalaby, Alberto Zanetto, Alessandro Vitale, Martina Gambato, Umberto Cillo, Fabio Farinati, Patrizia Burra, Francesco Paolo Russo – 11 October 2017

Andrés Duarte‐Rojo, Astrid Ruiz‐Margáin, Aldo J. Montaño‐Loza, Ricardo U. Macías‐Rodríguez, Arny Ferrando, W. Ray Kim – 11 October 2017 – Sarcopenia and physical deconditioning are frequent complications in patients with cirrhosis and end‐stage liver disease (ESLD). They are the end result of impaired dietary intake, chronic inflammation, altered macronutrient and micronutrient metabolism, and low physical activity. Frailty is the end result of prolonged sarcopenia and physical deconditioning.

Ashwin Rammohan, Mettu S. Reddy, Mohammed Farouk, Joy Vargese, Mohamed Rela – 10 October 2017

Xiaoshun He, Fei Ji, Zhiheng Zhang, Yunhua Tang, Lu Yang, Shanzhou Huang, Wenwen Li, Qiao Su, Wei Xiong, Zebin Zhu, Linhe Wang, Lei Lv, Jiyou Yao, Linan Zhang, Longjuan Zhang, Zhiyong Guo – 10 October 2017 – It has been shown that combined liver‐kidney normothermic machine perfusion (NMP) is able to better maintain the circuit's biochemical milieu. Nevertheless, whether the combined perfusion is superior to liver perfusion alone in protecting livers from donation after circulatory death (DCD) is unclear. We aimed to test the hypothesis and explored the mechanisms.

Sahaj Rathi, Sunil Taneja – 10 October 2017

Fang Wang, Ling Li, Klaus Piontek, Masazumi Sakaguchi, Florin M. Selaru – 10 October 2017 – Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a common and deadly cancer. Most cases of HCC arise in a cirrhotic/fibrotic liver, indicating that environment may play a paramount role in cancer genesis. Previous studies from our group and others have shown that, in desmoplastic cancers, there is a rich intercellular communication between activated, cancer‐associated fibroblasts and cancer cells.