Ramkiran Cherukuru, Mettu Srinivas Reddy, Naresh P. Shanmugam, Rajesh Rajalingam, Venugopal Kota, Vasanthakumar Gunasekaran, Gomathy Narasimhan, Ilankumaran Kaliamoorthy, Mohamed Rela – 26 December 2018 – Split‐liver transplantation (SLT) is a valuable option for optimizing the use of good‐quality deceased donor grafts. It is not routinely reported outside the West because of limited deceased donor numbers, technical and organizational constraints, lack of experience, and a predominant living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) practice.

Suzanne R. Sharpton, Norah A. Terrault – 26 December 2018

Fasiha Kanwal, Elliot B. Tapper, Chanda Ho, Sumeet K. Asrani, Nadia Ovchinsky, John Poterucha, Avegail Flores, Victor Ankoma‐Sey, Bruce Luxon, Michael Volk – 26 December 2018 – Health care delivery is increasingly evaluated according to quality measures, yet such measures are underdeveloped for cirrhosis. The Practice Metrics Committee of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases was charged with developing explicit process‐based and outcome‐based measures for adults with cirrhosis.

Kazuma Sekiba, Motoyuki Otsuka, Motoko Ohno, Mari Yamagami, Takahiro Kishikawa, Takahiro Seimiya, Tatsunori Suzuki, Eri Tanaka, Rei Ishibashi, Kazuyoshi Funato, Kazuhiko Koike – 26 December 2018 – Hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection is a major health concern worldwide. To prevent HBV‐related mortality, elimination of viral proteins is considered the ultimate goal of HBV treatment; however, currently available nucleos(t)ide analogs rarely achieve this goal, as viral transcription from episomal viral covalently closed circular DNA (cccDNA) is not prevented.

Fasiha Kanwal, Elliot B. Tapper, Chanda Ho, Sumeet K. Asrani, Nadia Ovchinsky, John Poterucha, Avegail Flores, Victor Ankoma‐Sey, Bruce Luxon, Michael Volk – 26 December 2018 – Health care delivery is increasingly evaluated according to quality measures, yet such measures are underdeveloped for cirrhosis. The Practice Metrics Committee of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases was charged with developing explicit process‐based and outcome‐based measures for adults with cirrhosis.

Mitchell L. Shiffman, Norman L. Sussman, Natarajan Ravendhran, Macia Ditmyer, Kris V. Kowdley, Marcelo Kugelmas – 26 December 2018 – Several governmental agencies and private organizations monitor data on relative value units (RVUs) and salary earned by various medical specialists. There are currently no data that define the RVU production and salary earned by hepatologists. A web‐based survey that queried the number of patients that a hepatologist cares for, RVU production, and salary support was sent to 2,587 members of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.

Xiu‐Ping Zhang, Yu‐Zhen Gao, Zhen‐Hua Chen, Min‐Shan Chen, Le‐Qun Li, Tian‐Fu Wen, Li Xu, Kang Wang, Zong‐Tao Chai, Wei‐Xing Guo, Jie Shi, Dong Xie, Meng‐Chao Wu, Wan Yee Lau, Shu‐Qun Cheng – 26 December 2018 – Portal vein tumor thrombus (PVTT) is a significant poor prognostic factor for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Patients with PVTT limited to a first‐order branch of the main portal vein (MPV) or above could benefit from negative margin (R0) liver resection (LR).

Austin Moore, Linwei Wu, Jen‐Chieh Chuang, Xuxu Sun, Xin Luo, Purva Gopal, Lin Li, Cemre Celen, Michael Zimmer, Hao Zhu – 25 December 2018 – Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is a rapidly growing cause of chronic liver damage, cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carcinoma. How fatty liver pathogenesis is subject to epigenetic regulation is unknown. We hypothesized that chromatin remodeling is important for the pathogenesis of fatty liver disease.

Igor Spivak, Jyoti Arora, Caitlyn Meinzer, Valerie Durkalski‐Mauldin, William M. Lee, Christian Trautwein, Robert J. Fontana, Pavel Strnad, for the Acute Liver Failure Study Group (ALFSG) – 24 December 2018 – The liver has an important role in iron homeostasis through the synthesis of the serum transporter transferrin and the iron hormone hepcidin. The aim of this study was to analyze parameters of iron metabolism in a multicenter cohort of adult patients with acute liver failure (ALF) and in an acetaminophen (APAP)‐induced ALF mouse model.

Alina M. Allen, Vijay H. Shah, Terry M. Therneau, Sudhakar K. Venkatesh, Taofic Mounajjed, Joseph J. Larson, Kristin C. Mara, Phillip J. Schulte, Todd A. Kellogg, Michael L. Kendrick, Travis J. McKenzie, Suzanne M. Greiner, Jiahui Li, Kevin J. Glaser, Michael L. Wells, Jun Chen, Richard L. Ehman, Meng Yin – 24 December 2018 – The lack of reliable, noninvasive methods to diagnose early nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) is a major unmet need.