M. James Phillips, Rosemarie L. Fisher, Deborah W. Anderson, Shu‐Ping Lan, John M. Lachin, James L. Boyer, The Steering Committee for the National Cooperative Gallstone Study Group – 1 January 1983 – Electron microscopy was performed to assess potential hepatotoxicity before and after 9 and 24 months of chenodeoxycholic acid (CDCA) therapy (375 or 750 mg, daily) in 103 patients with cholelithiasis.

Mark Zern – 1 January 1983

Stephanos J. Hadziyannis, Harvey M. Lieberman, Gerassimos G. Karvountzis, David A. Shafritz – 1 January 1983 – Nine HBeAg+ and 24 anti‐HBe+ subjects with chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection were studied for HBV DNA in the serum by molecular hybridization, for HBeAg in the liver by immunofluorescence, and for histologic evidence of liver disease.

David Westaby, Brian R. D. Macdougall, Walter Melia, Andrew Theodossi, Roger Williams – 1 January 1983 – In a study designed to compare the efficacy and safety of two techniques of injection sclerotherapy, 40 patients (30 with cirrhosis and 10 with portal vein block) were randomly allocated to the sheath or free‐hand technique. Although the former was associated with significantly less bleeding within the first 24 hr of injection (p < 0.05) but more postinjection pain (p < 0.05) and esophageal stricture, there was a trend toward earlier obliteration of varices.

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