Davide Festi, Antonio Maria Morselli Labate, Aldo Roda, Franco Bazzoli, Roberto Frabboni, Paola Rucci, Francesco Taroni, Rita Aldini, Enrico Roda, Luigi Barbara – 1 January 1983 – The aims of this study were to determine the diagnostic effectiveness of fasting and postprandial serum bile acid determinations in liver diseases, and to compare results with those of conventional liver function tests.

Ian R. Mackay – 1 January 1983

Sheila M. Cohen – 1 January 1983

Irwin M. Arias – 1 January 1983

Jack R. Wands – 1 January 1983

Adrianne E. Rogers – 1 January 1983

1 January 1983

Hans Popper, Swan N. Thung, Michael A. Gerber, Stephen C. Hadler, Mario De Monzon, Antonio Ponzetto, Elias Anzola, Dalia Rivera, Alejandro Mondolfi, Ana Bracho, Donald P. Francis, John L. Gerin, James E. Maynard, Robert H. Purcell – 1 January 1983 – To supplement a detailed epidemiologic study of an outbreak of viral hepatitis in Venezuelan Indians in isolated valleys, apparently resulting from delta agent infection, 10 autopsy specimens were studied histologically and immunocytochemically, and five biopsy specimens were examined.

1 January 1983

R. Palmer Beasley, Lu‐Yu Hwang, Cladd E. Stevens, Chia‐Chin Lin, Fon‐Jou Hsieh, Kwei‐Yu Wang, Tsu‐Shen Sun, Wolf Szmuness – 1 January 1983 – A randomized double‐blind, placebo‐controlled efficacy trial of hepatitis B immune globulin (HBIG) for prevention of the mother‐to‐infant transmitted HBsAg carrier state was conducted in Taiwan where the carrier rate in the general population is 15 to 20%. HBIG was given immediately after birth to infants of e antigen positive HBsAg carrier mothers, and all infants were followed for at least 15 months.