Lisa B. VanWagner, Hongyan Ning, Maureen Whitsett, Josh Levitsky, Sarah Uttal, John T. Wilkins, Michael M. Abecassis, Daniela P. Ladner, Anton I. Skaro, Donald M. Lloyd‐Jones – 13 July 2017 – Cardiovascular disease (CVD) complications are important causes of morbidity and mortality after orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT). There is currently no preoperative risk‐assessment tool that allows physicians to estimate the risk for CVD events following OLT.

Carmen Cepeda‐Franco, Luis Miguel Marín‐Gómez, Carmen Bernal‐Bellido, Gonzalo Suárez‐Artacho, Jose María Álamo‐Martínez, Francisco Javier Padillo‐Ruiz, Miguel Ángel Gómez‐Bravo – 12 July 2017

Puneet Puri, Kalyani Daita, Andrew Joyce, Faridoddin Mirshahi, Prasanna K. Santhekadur, Sophie Cazanave, Velimir A Luketic, Mohammad S. Siddiqui, Sherry Boyett, Hae‐Ki Min, Divya P. Kumar, Rohit Kohli, Huiping Zhou, Phillip B. Hylemon, Melissa J. Contos, Michael Idowu, Arun J. Sanyal – 11 July 2017 – The histologic spectrum of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) includes fatty liver (NAFL) and steatohepatitis (NASH), which can progress to cirrhosis in up to 20% of NASH patients. Bile acids (BA) are linked to the pathogenesis and therapy of NASH.

Puneet Puri, Kalyani Daita, Andrew Joyce, Faridoddin Mirshahi, Prasanna K. Santhekadur, Sophie Cazanave, Velimir A Luketic, Mohammad S. Siddiqui, Sherry Boyett, Hae‐Ki Min, Divya P. Kumar, Rohit Kohli, Huiping Zhou, Phillip B. Hylemon, Melissa J. Contos, Michael Idowu, Arun J. Sanyal – 11 July 2017 – The histologic spectrum of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) includes fatty liver (NAFL) and steatohepatitis (NASH), which can progress to cirrhosis in up to 20% of NASH patients. Bile acids (BA) are linked to the pathogenesis and therapy of NASH.

Salvador Augustin, Mònica Pons, James B. Maurice, Christophe Bureau, Horia Stefanescu, Michel Ney, Hélène Blasco, Bogdan Procopet, Emmanuel Tsochatzis, Rachel H. Westbrook, Jaime Bosch, Annalisa Berzigotti, Juan G. Abraldes, Joan Genescà – 11 July 2017 – Patients with compensated advanced chronic liver disease (cACLD) can safely avoid screening endoscopy with a platelet count >150 × 109 cells/L and a liver stiffness measurement (LSM) <20 kPa (Baveno VI criteria). However, the total number of avoided endoscopies using this rule is relatively low.

Shih‐Ho Wang, Poh‐Yen Loh, Ting‐Lung Lin, Li‐Man Lin, Wei‐Feng Li, Yu‐Hung Lin, Chih‐Che Lin, Chao‐Long Chen – 10 July 2017 – De novo hepatitis B virus (DNHB) infections may occur in recipients who do not receive prophylaxis after liver transplantation (LT) with antibody to hepatitis B core antigen (anti‐HBc)–positive donor grafts. Active immunization has been shown to prevent DNHB in pediatric recipients. Our aim is to investigate the efficacy of HBV vaccination for preventing DNHB in adult living donor liver transplantation (LDLT).

Karuna Rasineni, Terrence M. Donohue, Paul G. Thomes, Li Yang, Dean J. Tuma, Mark A. McNiven, Carol A. Casey – 10 July 2017 – Lipid droplets (LDs), the organelles central to alcoholic steatosis, are broken down by lipophagy, a specialized form of autophagy. Here, we hypothesize that ethanol administration retards lipophagy by down‐regulating dynamin 2 (Dyn2), a protein that facilitates lysosome re‐formation, contributing to hepatocellular steatosis. Primary hepatocytes were isolated from male Wistar rats fed Lieber–DeCarli control or ethanol (EtOH) liquid diets for 6‐8 weeks.

Jody C. Olson, Constantine J. Karvellas – 8 July 2017 – Patients with cirrhosis who are awaiting liver transplantation (LT) are at high risk for developing critical illnesses. Current liver allocation policies that dictate a “sickest first” approach coupled with a mismatch between need and availability of organs result in longer wait times, and thus, patients are becoming increasingly ill while awaiting organ transplantation.

Elsa Solà, Pere Ginès – 8 July 2017 – Liver Transplantation 23 1318–1324 2017 AASLD.

Colin M. Court, Michael P. Harlander‐Locke, Daniela Markovic, Samuel W. French, Bita V. Naini, David S. Lu, Steven S. Raman, Fady M. Kaldas, Ali Zarrinpar, Douglas G. Farmer, Richard S. Finn, Saeed Sadeghi, James S. Tomlinson, Ronald W. Busuttil, Vatche G. Agopian – 7 July 2017 – The objective of this article is to evaluate the utility of preoperative needle biopsy (PNB) grading of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) as a biomarker for liver transplantation (LT) candidate selection.