Peter N. Burns, Lynwood Hammers – 1 November 1987 – FM sonography—a signal‐processing technique that uses frequency and phase information as well as amplitude data—shows promise in evaluation of patients with diffuse liver disease. In a prospective blinded review of 37 patients with biopsyproved liver disease and 42 healthy volunteers, FM sonography was clearly superior to traditional amplitude‐based (AM) sonography in distinguishing healthy from diseased subjects.

Murray Epstein, Meyer Lifschitz – 1 November 1987

Peter G. Traber, Mauro Dal Canto, Daniel R. Ganger, Andres T. Blei – 1 November 1987 – Brain edema is a major complication of fulminant hepatic failure and is responsible for death in a large percentage of patients. We previously demonstrated the progressive accumulation of water in grey matter areas of the brain in the rabbit with galactosamine‐induced fulminant hepatic failure.

Anne‐Marie Steffan, Jean‐Louis Gendrault, André Kirn – 1 November 1987 – Endothelial cells of the hepatic sinusoid isolated from mice livers and maintained in culture display typical fenestrae grouped in sieve plates. Treatment with cytochalasin B led to no significant change in the mean diameter of the fenestrae but to an increase in their number and in the porosity of the cells (percentage of the cellular surface opened by the fenestrae) which attained up to 300% of that of the controls.

Alice Chow – 1 November 1987

Howard M. Shulman – 1 November 1987 – A 28‐yr‐old woman with severe idiopathic aplastic anemia received an HLA‐identical mixed lymphocyte culture nonreactive bone marrow transplant from her brother. In the months after successful engraftment, she developed cutaneous and hepatic graft‐versus‐host disease, associated with marked cholestatic jaundice. Despite a series of therapeutic maneuvers, cholestasis persisted but remained relative stable over the enuing 10 yr. However, serial liver biopsies revealed progressive biliary‐type firbrosis culminating in cirrhosis.

Stuart E. Lind, Daniel E. Singer, Klemens B. Meyer, Jerome P. Kassirer – 1 November 1987

Ala U. Toukan, Omayma A. Abu‐El‐Rub, Salwa A. Abu‐Laban, Musleh S. Tarawneh, M. Feisal Kamal, Stephen C. Hadler, Krzysztof Krawczynski, Harold S. Margolis, James E. Maynard – 1 November 1987 – The epidemiology and clinical outcome of hepatitis D viral infection in HBsAg‐positive acute hepatitis, chronic liver disease, primary hepatocellular carcinoma and the symptomless carrier state was studied in Jordan.

1 September 1987

Harold O. Conn, Johan Fevery – 1 September 1987