Guojun Hou, Lei Chen, Gang Liu, Liang Li, Yuan Yang, He‐Xin Yan, Hui‐Lu Zhang, Jing Tang, Ying Cheng Yang, Ximeng Lin, Xin Chen, Gui juan Luo, Yanjing Zhu, Shanhua Tang, Jin Zhang, Hui Liu, Qingyang Gu, Ling‐Hao Zhao, Yixue Li, Lei Liu, Weiping Zhou, Hongyang Wang – 27 December 2016 – Potential biomarkers that can be used to determine prognosis and perform targeted therapies are urgently needed to treat patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC).

Kasper S. Wang, Greg Tiao, Lee M. Bass, Paula M. Hertel, Douglas Mogul, Nanda Kerkar, Matthew Clifton, Colleen Azen, Laura Bull, Philip Rosenthal, Dylan Stewart, Riccardo Superina, Ronen Arnon, Molly Bozic, Mary L. Brandt, Patrick A. Dillon, Annie Fecteau, Kishore Iyer, Binita Kamath, Saul Karpen, Frederick Karrer, Kathleen M. Loomes, Cara Mack, Peter Mattei, Alexander Miethke, Kyle Soltys, Yumirle P. Turmelle, Karen West, Jessica Zagory, Cat Goodhue, Benjamin L.

Puneeta Tandon, Maitreyi Raman, Marina Mourtzakis, Manuela Merli – 27 December 2016 – Malnutrition is one of the most common complications of cirrhosis, associated with an increased risk of morbidity and mortality. As a potentially modifiable condition, it is of particular importance to identify malnourished patients so that nutritional therapy can be instituted. Nutrition screening and assessment are infrequently performed in patients with cirrhosis.

Tali Lanton, Anat Shriki, Yael Nechemia‐Arbely, Rinat Abramovitch, Orr Levkovitch, Revital Adar, Nofar Rosenberg, Mor Paldor, Daniel Goldenberg, Amir Sonnenblick, Amnon Peled, Stefan Rose‐John, Eithan Galun, Jonathan H. Axelrod – 27 December 2016 – Liver cancer, which typically develops on a background of chronic liver inflammation, is now the second leading cause of cancer mortality worldwide. For patients with liver cancer, surgical resection is a principal treatment modality that offers a chance of prolonged survival.

Dan Li, Xuefeng Liu, Jian Zhou, Jie Hu, Dongdong Zhang, Jing Liu, Yanyan Qiao, Qimin Zhan – 27 December 2016 – Dysregulated expression of long noncoding RNAs has been reported in many types of cancers, indicating that it may play a critical role in tumorigenesis. The long noncoding RNA highly up‐regulated in liver cancer (HULC) was first characterized in hepatocellular carcinoma. However, the detailed mechanisms of HULC remain unclear.

Jan Görtzen, Jonel Trebicka – 27 December 2016

Joris J. Blok, Hein Putter, Andries E. Braat – 27 December 2016

27 December 2016

Jacqueline B. Henson, Yuval A. Patel, Lindsay Y. King, Jiayin Zheng, Shein‐Chung Chow, Andrew J. Muir – 27 December 2016 – Liver retransplantation in patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) has not been well studied. The aims of this study were to characterize patients with PSC listed for and undergoing retransplantation and to describe the outcomes in these patients.

Deirdre Kelly, Steffen Hartleif, Henkjan J. Verkade, Jeremy Rajanayagam, Patrick McKiernan, George Mazariegos, Stefan Hübscher – 27 December 2016