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Toru Ikegami, Tomoharu Yoshizumi, Norifumi Iseda, Takeo Toshima, Mohamed Elemam Elshawy, Masaki Mori – 14 December 2019

Outcomes of Acute Liver Injury in Adults Due to Wilson’s Disease: Is Survival Without Transplant Possible?

Michelle A. Camarata, Michelle Gottfried, Jody A. Rule, Aftab Ala, William M. Lee, R. Todd Stravitz, Michael L. Schilsky – 14 December 2019 – Wilson’s disease (WD) is a rare cause of acute liver failure (ALF) that is thought to have a uniformly fatal outcome without liver transplantation (LT). Previous studies proposed diagnostic and prognostic criteria for WD‐ALF. It is not known whether these apply to WD patients presenting as severe acute liver injury (ALI) without encephalopathy.

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Marie Sinclair, Brooke Chapman, Rudolf Hoermann, Peter W. Angus, Adam Testro, Thomas Scodellaro, Paul J. Gow – 13 December 2019

Unfair Advantages for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Patients Listed for Liver Transplant in Short‐Wait Regions Following 2015 Hepatocellular Carcinoma Policy Change

Max N. Brondfield, Jennifer L. Dodge, Ryutaro Hirose, Julie Heimbach, Francis Y. Yao, Neil Mehta – 13 December 2019 – For patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) listed for liver transplantation (LT), United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) enacted policy changes in 2015 to improve equity between HCC and non‐HCC patients. We evaluated the impact of these changes on regional disparities in wait‐list dropout and LT.

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