Hans P. Dienes, Hans Popper, Wolfgang Arnold, Hartmut Lobeck – 1 September 1982 – Specimens from 57 patients with acute or chronic hepatitis non‐A, non‐B (HNANB), mostly mild to moderate, were studied by light and, in 22 instances, by electron microscopy. They were compared to specimens of hepatitis A and hepatitis B on file or obtained simultaneously with the HNANB cases. In the HNANB material, two types of light‐microscopic lesions were noted in the lobular parenchyma singly or in combination.

Peter J. Tutschka – 1 September 1982

1 September 1982

Masayasu Inoue, Rolf Kinne, Thao Tran, Irwin M. Arias – 1 September 1982 – To elucidate the first step in the vectorial transport of bile acids by the liver, plasma membrane vesicles were isolated from rat liver by differential and sucrose‐Ficoll density gradient centrifugation. The membranes were selectively enriched 20‐fold in Na+,K+−ATPase activity, a marker of sinusoidal plasma membranes. Electron microscopy of pellets from sinusoidal membrane fraction did not reveal other organelles.

Elie S. Zafrani, Pierre Berthelot – 1 September 1982

Maria L. Zeneroli, Ezio Ventura, Mario Baraldi, Alessandro Penne, Elena Messori, Leslie Zieve – 1 September 1982 – Visual evoked potentials were utilized to examine the neuronal transmission changes provoked by galactosamine‐induced hepatic encephalopathy and by administration in normal animals of toxins presumably involved in the pathogenesis of hepatic encepalopathy.

Laurence M. Blendis, Hector Orrego, Ian R. Crossley, Joan E. Blake, Alan Medline, Yedy Israel – 1 September 1982 – The relationship between hepatocyte enlargement and intrahepatic and portal pressures was studied in a group of 163 patients with alcoholic liver disease presenting liver biopsy abnormalities, including 91 cirrhotics. For the complete group, hepatocyte surface areas were significantly correlated (r = 0.73, p < 0.0001) with pressure. Cirrhotics as a group had a mean average pressure of 20.4 ± 0.9 mm Hg, while that for noncirrhotics was 11.7 ± 0.8 mm Hg (p < 0.0001).

Alexander Pope, Harold O. Conn – 1 September 1982

Thomas E. Starzl, Shunzaburo Iwatsuki, David H. Van Thiel, J. Carlton Gartner, Basil J. Zitelli, J. Jeffrey Malatack, Robert R. Schade, Byers W. , Shaw Jr ., Thomas R. Hakala, J. Thomas Rosenthal, Kendrick A. Porter – 1 September 1982

David H. Van Thiel, Robert R. Schade, Thomas E. Starzl, Shunzaburo Iwatsuki, Byers W. , Shaw Jr ., Judith S. Gavaler, Marcus Dugas – 1 September 1982 – Human liver transplantation has been possible since 1967. We report our experience in 32 adult patients who received liver transplants at the University of Pittsburgh over a 16‐month period. Survival data, method utilized for patient selection, costs, and morbidity of the procedure are discussed.