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    Liver International: Volume 37, Issue 4

    471-623
    April 2017
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ISSUE INFORMATION

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Issue Information

  • Pages: 471-473
  • First Published: 30 March 2017

REVIEW

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Hepatic manifestations of inflammatory bowel diseases

Sophie Restellini,  Olivier Chazouillères,  Jean-Louis Frossard, 
  • Pages: 475-489
  • First Published: 06 October 2016

DEBATES IN HEPATOLOGY

Old and new treatments for primary biliary cholangitis

David Chascsa,  Elizabeth J. Carey,  Keith D. Lindor, 
  • Pages: 490-499
  • First Published: 30 March 2017

Finding the cure for primary biliary cholangitis – Still waiting

Atsushi Tanaka,  M. Eric Gershwin, 
  • Pages: 500-502
  • First Published: 30 March 2017

Treatment of PBC—A step forward

Marco Carbone,  Pietro Invernizzi, 
  • Pages: 503-505
  • First Published: 30 March 2017

EDITORIAL

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Overcoming the resistance to resistance testing: Collecting the data

Adam Doyle,  Jordan J. Feld, 
  • Pages: 506-508
  • First Published: 30 March 2017

See Article on Page 514

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Heat stroke leading to acute liver injury & failure: A case series from the Acute Liver Failure Study Group

Brian C. Davis,  Holly Tillman,  Raymond T. Chung,  Richard T. Stravitz,  Rajender Reddy,  Robert J. Fontana,  Brendan McGuire,  Timothy Davern,  William M. Lee, for the Acute Liver Failure Study Group , 
  • Pages: 509-513
  • First Published: 27 January 2017

VIRAL HEPATITIS

Multiclass HCV resistance to direct-acting antiviral failure in real-life patients advocates for tailored second-line therapies

Velia C. Di Maio,  Valeria Cento,  Ilaria Lenci,  Marianna Aragri,  Piera Rossi,  Silvia Barbaliscia,  Michela Melis,  Gabriella Verucchi,  Carlo F. Magni,  Elisabetta Teti,  Ada Bertoli,  FrancescoPaolo Antonucci,  Maria C. Bellocchi,  Valeria Micheli,  Chiara Masetti,  Simona Landonio,  Simona Francioso,  Francesco Santopaolo,  Adriano M. Pellicelli,  Vincenza Calvaruso,  Laura Gianserra,  Massimo Siciliano,  Dante Romagnoli,  Raffaele Cozzolongo,  Antonio Grieco,  Jacopo Vecchiet,  Filomena Morisco,  Manuela Merli,  Giuseppina Brancaccio,  Antonio Di Biagio,  Elisabetta Loggi,  Claudio M. Mastroianni,  Valeria Pace Palitti,  Pierluigi Tarquini,  Massimo Puoti,  Gloria Taliani,  Loredana Sarmati,  Antonino Picciotto,  Vincenzo Vullo,  Nicola Caporaso,  Maurizio Paoloni,  Caterina Pasquazzi,  Giuliano Rizzardini,  Giustino Parruti,  Antonio Craxì,  Sergio Babudieri,  Massimo Andreoni,  Mario Angelico,  Carlo F. Perno,  Francesca Ceccherini-Silberstein,  for the HCV Italian Resistance Network Study Group , 
  • Pages: 514-528
  • First Published: 20 January 2017

See Editorial on Page 506

Prediction of HCV vertical transmission: what factors should be optimized using data mining computational analysis

Abd Elrazek,  Mohamed Amer,  Bahaa El-Hawary,  Altaher Salah,  Akshaya S. Bhagavathula,  M. Alboraie,  Samy Saab, 
  • Pages: 529-533
  • First Published: 28 April 2016

Real life Egyptian experience of efficacy and safety of Simeprevir/Sofosbuvir therapy in 6211 chronic HCV genotype IV infected patients

Rasha Eletreby,  Wafaa Elakel,  Mohamed Said,  Mohamed El Kassas,  Sameh Seif,  Tamer Elbaz,  Maissa El Raziky,  Siham Abdel Rehim,  Samy Zaky,  Rabab Fouad,  Hadeel Gamal Eldeen,  Mahmoud Abdo,  Mohamed Korany,  Ayman Yosry,  Magdy El Serafy,  Manal Hamdy El-Sayed,  Yehia ElShazly,  Imam Waked,  Wahid Doss,  Gamal Esmat, 
  • Pages: 534-541
  • First Published: 06 October 2016

The prevalence of steatohepatitis in chronic hepatitis B patients and its impact on disease severity and treatment response

Phunchai Charatcharoenwitthaya,  Ananya Pongpaibul,  Uayporn Kaosombatwattana,  Patommatat Bhanthumkomol,  Wimolrak Bandidniyamanon,  Nonthalee Pausawasdi,  Tawesak Tanwandee, 
  • Pages: 542-551
  • First Published: 14 October 2016

LIVER FAILURE, CIRRHOSIS AND ITS COMPLICATIONS

A randomized trial comparing terlipressin and noradrenaline in patients with cirrhosis and septic shock

Ashok Choudhury,  Chandan K. Kedarisetty,  Chitranshu Vashishtha,  Deepak Saini,  Sachin Kumar,  Rakhi Maiwall,  Manoj K. Sharma,  Ajeet S. Bhadoria,  Guresh Kumar,  Yogendra K. Joshi,  Shiv K. Sarin, 
  • Pages: 552-561
  • First Published: 16 September 2016

Rotational thromboelastometry can detect factor XIII deficiency and bleeding diathesis in patients with cirrhosis

Sotiria Bedreli,  Jan-Peter Sowa,  Saraa Malek,  Sandra Blomeyer,  Antonios Katsounas,  Guido Gerken,  Fuat H. Saner,  Ali Canbay, 
  • Pages: 562-568
  • First Published: 16 September 2016

The soluble mannose receptor is released from the liver in cirrhotic patients, but is not associated with bacterial translocation

Tea L. Laursen,  Sidsel Rødgaard-Hansen,  Holger J. Møller,  Christian Mortensen,  Stine Karlsen,  Dennis T. Nielsen,  Susanne Frevert,  Jens O. Clemmesen,  Søren Møller,  Jørgen S. Jensen,  Flemming Bendtsen,  Henning Grønbæk, 
  • Pages: 569-575
  • First Published: 05 October 2016

High serum lipopolysaccharide binding protein is associated with increased mortality in patients with decompensated cirrhosis

Danai Agiasotelli,  Alexandra Alexopoulou,  Larisa Vasilieva,  Emilia Hadziyannis,  Dimitris Goukos,  George L. Daikos,  Spyros P. Dourakis, 
  • Pages: 576-582
  • First Published: 06 October 2016

CANCER

Risks factors for severe pain after selective liver transarterial chemoembolization

Joseph Benzakoun,  Maxime Ronot,  Matthieu Lagadec,  Wassim Allaham,  Carmela Garcia Alba,  Annie Sibert,  Valérie Vilgrain, 
  • Pages: 583-591
  • First Published: 16 August 2016

Risk stratification for locally advanced hepatocellular carcinoma using pretreatment alpha-foetoprotein and 18F-fluoro-2-deoxyglucose positron emission tomography

Woo Joong Rhee,  Sang Hyun Hwang,  Hwa Kyung Byun,  Mijin Yun,  Kwang-Hyub Han,  Jinsil Seong, 
  • Pages: 592-599
  • First Published: 02 November 2016

Hepatocellular carcinomas with intracellular hyaline bodies have a poor prognosis

Ariane Aigelsreiter,  Jens Neumann,  Martin Pichler,  Judith Halasz,  Kurt Zatloukal,  Andrea Berghold,  Philipp Douschan,  Florian Rainer,  Rudolf Stauber,  Johannes Haybaeck,  Helmut Denk,  Carolin Lackner, 
  • Pages: 600-610
  • First Published: 25 November 2016

METABOLIC LIVER DISEASE

Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis is associated with a state of betaine-insufficiency

Silvia Sookoian,  Puneet Puri,  Gustavo O. Castaño,  Romina Scian,  Faridodin Mirshahi,  Arun J. Sanyal,  Carlos J. Pirola, 
  • Pages: 611-619
  • First Published: 10 September 2016

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

The high-diagnostic characteristics of HBsAg level in differentiation of hepatitis B clinical presentations: Myth or truth?

Heidar Sharafi,  Hamidreza Karimi-Sari,  Seyed Moayed Alavian, 
  • Pages: 620-621
  • First Published: 01 October 2016

Response to the high diagnostic characteristics of HBsAg level in differentiation of Hepatitis B clinical presentations: myth or truth?

Sergio Maimone,  Gaia Caccamo,  Angela Alibrandi,  Giovanni Raimondo, 
  • Page: 621
  • First Published: 30 March 2017

The clinical course and short-term mortality of cirrhotic patients with non-spontaneous bacterial peritonitis infections

Lin Y. Wang,  Bin Y. Hu,  Qiao B. Wang,  Ping Y. Chen, 
  • Page: 622
  • First Published: 11 October 2016

Response to the clinical course and short-term mortality of cirrhotic patients with non-spontaneous bacterial peritonitis infections

Javier Fernández,  Juan Acevedo,  Vicente Arroyo, 
  • Page: 623
  • First Published: 30 March 2017