Curative salvage liver transplantation in patients with cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma: An intention‐to‐treat analysis

Robbert J. de Haas, Chetana Lim, Prashant Bhangui, Chady Salloum, Philippe Compagnon, Cyrille Feray, Julien Calderaro, Alain Luciani, Daniel Azoulay – 14 August 2017 – The salvage liver transplantation (SLT) strategy was conceived for initially resectable and transplantable (R&T) hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) patients, to try to obviate upfront liver transplantation, with the “safety net” of SLT in case of postresection recurrence. The SLT strategy is successful or curative when patients are recurrence free following primary resection alone, or after SLT for recurrence.

Taurine up‐regulated gene 1 functions as a master regulator to coordinate glycolysis and metastasis in hepatocellular carcinoma

Yang‐Hsiang Lin, Meng‐Han Wu, Ya‐Hui Huang, Chau‐Ting Yeh, Mei‐Ling Cheng, Hsiang‐Cheng Chi, Chung‐Ying Tsai, I‐Hsiao Chung, Ching‐Ying Chen, Kwang‐Huei Lin – 12 August 2017 – Cancer cells display altered glucose metabolism characterized by a preference for aerobic glycolysis. The aerobic glycolytic phenotype of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is often correlated with tumor progression and poorer clinical outcomes. However, the issue of whether glycolytic metabolism influences metastasis in HCC remains unclear.

Hepatitis B Virus Pregenomic RNA in Hepatocellular Carcinoma: A Nosological and Prognostic Determinant

Boris Halgand, Christophe Desterke, Lise Rivière, Guillaume Fallot, Mylène Sebagh, Julien Calderaro, Paulette Bioulac‐Sage, Christine Neuveut, Marie‐Annick Buendia, Didier Samuel, Cyrille Féray – 12 August 2017 – Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a major cause of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, very little is known about the replication of HBV in HCC tissues. We analyzed viral and cellular parameters in HCC (T) and nontumor liver (NT) samples from 99 hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg)‐positive, virologically suppressed patients treated by tumor resection or liver transplantation.

Modeling the epidemic of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease demonstrates an exponential increase in burden of disease

Chris Estes, Homie Razavi, Rohit Loomba, Zobair Younossi, Arun J. Sanyal – 12 August 2017 – Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and resulting nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) are highly prevalent in the United States, where they are a growing cause of cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) and increasingly an indicator for liver transplantation. A Markov model was used to forecast NAFLD disease progression. Incidence of NAFLD was based on historical and projected changes in adult prevalence of obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM).

Altered amino acid concentrations in NAFLD: Impact of obesity and insulin resistance

Melania Gaggini, Fabrizia Carli, Chiara Rosso, Emma Buzzigoli, Milena Marietti, Veronica Della Latta, Demetrio Ciociaro, Maria Lorena Abate, Roberto Gambino, Maurizio Cassader, Elisabetta Bugianesi, Amalia Gastaldelli – 12 August 2017 – Plasma concentrations of amino acids (AAs), in particular, branched chain AAs (BCAAs), are often found increased in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD); however, if this is due to increased muscular protein catabolism, obesity, and/or increased insulin resistance (IR) or impaired tissue metabolism is unknown.

Targeting senescent cholangiocytes and activated fibroblasts with B‐cell lymphoma‐extra large inhibitors ameliorates fibrosis in multidrug resistance 2 gene knockout (Mdr2−/−) mice

Anja Moncsek, Mohammed S. Al‐Suraih, Christy E. Trussoni, Steven P. O'Hara, Patrick L. Splinter, Camille Zuber, Eleonora Patsenker, Piero V. Valli, Christian D. Fingas, Achim Weber, Yi Zhu, Tamar Tchkonia, James L. Kirkland, Gregory J. Gores, Beat Müllhaupt, Nicholas F. LaRusso, Joachim C. Mertens – 12 August 2017 – Cholangiocyte senescence has been linked to primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC). Persistent secretion of growth factors by senescent cholangiocytes leads to the activation of stromal fibroblasts (ASFs), which are drivers of fibrosis.

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