3 April 2015

3 April 2015

Neehar D. Parikh, David Hutton, Wesley Marrero, Kunal Sanghani, Yongcai Xu, Mariel Lavieri – 3 April 2015 – With the aging US population, demographic shifts, and obesity epidemic, there is potential for further exacerbation of the current liver donor shortage. We aimed to project the availability of liver grafts in the United States.

Christopher Lee, Lauren Ihde, Andrew Kim, Idoia Santos, Lea Matsuoka, Yong Cen, Melissa Wallman, Edward Grant – 2 April 2015 – No guidelines exist for the management of pulmonary nodules in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) who are being evaluated for liver transplantation. The 172 patients with HCC who were listed for liver transplant at our institution received both pretransplant chest computed tomography (CT) and follow‐up CT.

Joao Seda Neto, Flávia H. Feier, Ana Luiza Bierrenbach, Cristiana M. Toscano, Eduardo A. Fonseca, Renata Pugliese, Helry L. Candido, Marcel R. Benavides, Gilda Porta, Paulo Chapchap – 2 April 2015 – Biliary atresia (BA) is the main diagnosis leading to liver transplantation (LT) in children. When diagnosed early in life, a Kasai portoenterostomy (Kasai‐PE) can prevent or postpone LT. Instances of previous operations can result in difficulties during the LT. We hypothesized that a previous Kasai‐PE could affect LT outcomes.

J. Michael Millis – 2 April 2015

Jonathan G. Stine, Neeral L. Shah, Curtis K. Argo, Shawn J. Pelletier, Stephen H. Caldwell, Patrick G. Northup – 2 April 2015 – Portal vein thrombosis (PVT) is a common complication of cirrhosis sometimes implicated in hepatic decompensation. There are no consistent epidemiologic data to suggest an increased risk of thrombotic complications in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH); however, research suggests an increased risk of thrombosis.

David Wyles, Paul Pockros, Giuseppe Morelli, Ziad Younes, Evguenia Svarovskaia, Jenny C. Yang, Phillip S. Pang, Yanni Zhu, John G. McHutchison, Steven Flamm, Eric Lawitz – 2 April 2015 – Patients who fail to achieve sustained virological response (SVR) after treatment with sofosbuvir (SOF) plus ribavirin (RBV) with or without pegylated interferon (Peg‐IFN) do not have established retreatment options.

Ilker Turan, Suna Yapali, Fikret Bademkiran, Timur Kose, Soner Duman, Murat Sozbilen, Fulya Gunsar, Galip Ersoz, Ulus Salih Akarca, Omer Ozutemiz, Zeki Karasu – 2 April 2015 – The recently reported benefit of telbivudine for renal function has not been systematically studied in long‐term liver transplantation (LT) recipients who are at high risk for renal impairment. We aimed to examine whether switching lamivudine therapy to telbivudine could improve renal function in LT recipients who have impaired renal function.

Ping Wan, Qigen Li, Jianjun Zhang, Qiang Xia – 2 April 2015 – Split liver transplantation (SLT) has proven to be an effective technique to reduce the mortality of children on the waiting list, but whether creating 2 split grafts from 1 standard‐criteria whole liver would compromise outcomes of adult recipients remains uncertain. We conducted this meta‐analysis to compare outcomes of right lobe SLT and whole liver transplantation (WLT) in adult patients. PubMed, Embase, and the Cochrane Library were searched for relevant articles published before December 2014.