Toshiro Masuda, Ken Shirabe, Toru Ikegami, Norifumi Harimoto, Tomoharu Yoshizumi, Yuji Soejima, Hideaki Uchiyama, Tetsuo Ikeda, Hideo Baba, Yoshihiko Maehara – 20 December 2013 – The aims of this study were to investigate sarcopenia as a novel predictor of mortality and sepsis after living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) and to evaluate the effects of early enteral nutrition on patients with sarcopenia. Two hundred four patients undergoing preoperative computed tomography within the month before LDLT were retrospectively evaluated.

Rakesh Aggarwal – 20 December 2013 – Watch a video presentation of this article

Noele P. Nelson, Trudy V. Murphy – 20 December 2013 – Watch a video presentation of this article

Kymberly D. Watt – 20 December 2013

Charles Phan, F. Blaine Hollinger – 20 December 2013 – Watch a video presentation of this article

Niharika Samala, Marc G. Ghany – 20 December 2013 – Watch a video presentation of this article

Niharika Samala, Marc G. Ghany – 20 December 2013 – Watch a video presentation of this article

Heiner Wedemeyer, Svenja Hardtke, Michael P. Manns – 20 December 2013 – Watch a video presentation of this article

Rakesh Aggarwal – 20 December 2013 – Watch a video presentation of this article

Patrick J. Hackett, Marina Guirguis, Nozomi Sakai, Tetsuro Sakai – 19 December 2013 – Only 20.5% to 61.6% of abstracts presented at biomedical meetings are subsequently published as full‐length articles. The aim of this study was to analyze the abstract‐to‐publication rate of International Liver Transplantation Society (ILTS) meeting abstracts. Abstracts presented at 5 consecutive annual ILTS meetings (2004‐2008) were included to ensure a minimum follow‐up period of 4 years.