Junming Xu, Johnny C. Hong, Ronald W. Busuttil – 19 November 2014 – Transabdominal intrapericardial control of the suprahepatic inferior vena cava (SIVC) is a rather uncommon procedure occasionally required in conjunction with complicated liver transplantation (LT) and hepatobiliary surgery. Experience with this technique is limited. Here we report 6 cases of LT in which transabdominal intrapericardial control of the SIVC was necessary.

Carla Silva, Elizabeth Ianna, Tracey Jones, Joshua S. Davis – 7 November 2014

Tingting Sun, Nathalie Wong – 7 November 2014

Marcella Visentini, Stefania Colantuono, Guido Granata, Adriano de Santis, Massimo Fiorilli, Milvia Casato – 7 November 2014

Carlo Pulitano, David Joseph, Charbel Sandroussi, Deborah Verran, Simone I. Strasser, Nicholas A. Shackel, Geoffrey W. McCaughan, Michael Crawford – 6 November 2014 – Hepatic artery stenosis (HAS) is thought to predispose patients to biliary complications secondary to ischemic injury. Despite this, the clinical significance of HAS remains poorly defined. The aims of this study were to determine the prevalence and outcomes of HAS and to define which patients might benefit from endovascular treatment.

Philip Rosenthal – 6 November 2014

Madeleine R. Heldman, Min‐Woong Sohn, Elisa J. Gordon, Zeeshan Butt, Saeed Mohammed, Estella M. Alonso, Josh Levitsky – 6 November 2014 – Adult transplant hepatologists face challenges in providing care to young adults who received liver transplants during childhood. Because prior studies have focused mainly on pediatric providers, understanding these issues from the perspective of the adult hepatologist may provide novel insights and identify key barriers to care in this population.

Marouane Kheloufi, Chantal M. Boulanger, Patrice Codogno, Pierre‐Emmanuel Rautou – 5 November 2014

Peter Jepsen, Hendrik Vilstrup, Per Kragh Andersen – 5 November 2014 – Multistate models are models of disease progression that, for a patient group, define multiple outcome events, each of which may affect the time to develop another outcome event. Multistate models are highly relevant for studies of patients with cirrhosis; both the classical perception of cirrhosis as either compensated or decompensated and the recent, more complex models of cirrhosis progression are multistate models.

Parsia A. Vagefi, Jennifer L. Dodge, Francis Y. Yao, John P. Roberts – 5 November 2014 – A subset of liver transplantation (LT) recipients who undergo transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) will develop postoperative recurrence. There has yet to be a thorough investigation of donor factors influencing recurrence.