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    Liver International: Volume 38, Issue 12

    2103-2342.
    December 2018
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ISSUE INFORMATION

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Issue Information

  • Pages: 2103-2107
  • First Published: 27 November 2018

REVIEWS

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Should we cure hepatitis C virus in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma while treating cancer?

Giuseppe Cabibbo,  Ciro Celsa,  Calogero Cammà,  Antonio Craxì, 
  • Pages: 2108-2116
  • First Published: 23 June 2018
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Frailty in advanced liver disease

Robyn Laube,  Hogan Wang,  Laura Park,  Joanne K. Heyman,  Helen Vidot,  Avik Majumdar,  Simone I. Strasser,  Geoffrey W. McCaughan,  Ken Liu, 
  • Pages: 2117-2128
  • First Published: 23 June 2018

EDITORIALS

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How to reduce mortality of bacterascites—That is the question

Raphael Mohr,  Philipp Lutz, 
  • Pages: 2129-2131
  • First Published: 27 November 2018

See Article on Page 2199

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Carbon-ion radiotherapy for HCC—A potential tool to fulfil an unmet gap in the treatment algorithms?

Leonardo G Da Fonseca,  Alejandro Forner, 
  • Pages: 2132-2133
  • First Published: 27 November 2018

See Article on Page 2239

BRIEF DEFINITIVE REPORT

Regression of hepatocellular adenoma after bariatric surgery in severe obese patients

Tom J. G. Gevers,  B. W. Marcel Spanier,  Peter B. Veendrick,  Jan Maarten Vrolijk, 
  • Pages: 2134-2136
  • First Published: 19 July 2018

VIRAL HEPATITIS

Generic sofosbuvir-based direct-acting antivirals in hepatitis C virus-infected patients with chronic kidney disease

Manoj Kumar,  Suman L. Nayak,  Ekta Gupta,  Ashish Kataria,  Shiv K. Sarin, 
  • Pages: 2137-2148
  • First Published: 20 April 2018

Placental expression of asialoglycoprotein receptor associated with Hepatitis B virus transmission from mother to child

Ashish Kumar Vyas,  Usha Ramakrishna,  Bijoya Sen,  Mojahidul Islam,  Gayatri Ramakrishna,  Sharda Patra,  Archana Rastogi,  Shiv Kumar Sarin,  Nirupma Trehanpati, 
  • Pages: 2149-2158
  • First Published: 30 April 2018

Risk of hepatitis B virus reactivation with direct-acting antivirals against hepatitis C virus: A cohort study from Egypt and meta-analysis of published data

Mohamed El Kassas,  Yusuke Shimakawa,  Zainab Ali-Eldin,  Anna-Louise Funk,  Mohamed Naguib Wifi,  Samy Zaky,  Fathiya El-Raey,  Gamal Esmat,  Arnaud Fontanet, 
  • Pages: 2159-2169
  • First Published: 08 May 2018

Delisting HCV-infected liver transplant candidates who improved after viral eradication: Outcome 2 years after delisting

Giovanni Perricone,  Christophe Duvoux,  Marina Berenguer,  Paolo A. Cortesi,  Carmen Vinaixa,  Rita Facchetti,  Chiara Mazzarelli,  Susanne-Rasoul Rockenschaub,  Silvia Martini,  Cristina Morelli,  Sara Monico,  Riccardo Volpes,  Georges-Philippe Pageaux,  Stefano Fagiuoli,  Luca S. Belli, for the European Liver and Intestine Transplant Association (ELITA) , 
  • Pages: 2170-2177
  • First Published: 11 May 2018

Hepatitis E virus–associated cryoglobulinemia in solid-organ–transplant recipients

Olivier Marion,  Florence Abravanel,  Arnaud Del Bello,  Laure Esposito,  Sebastien Lhomme,  Bénédicte Puissant-Lubrano,  Laurent Alric,  Stanislas Faguer,  Jacques Izopet,  Nassim Kamar, 
  • Pages: 2178-2189
  • First Published: 30 May 2018
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Forecasting Hepatitis C liver disease burden on real-life data. Does the hidden iceberg matter to reach the elimination goals?

Loreta A. Kondili,  Sarah Robbins,  Sarah Blach,  Ivane Gamkrelidze,  Anna L. Zignego,  Maurizia R. Brunetto,  Giovanni Raimondo,  Gloria Taliani,  Andrea Iannone,  Francesco P. Russo,  Teresa A. Santantonio,  Massimo Zuin,  Luchino Chessa,  Pierluigi Blanc,  Massimo Puoti,  Maria Vinci,  Elke M. Erne,  Mario Strazzabosco,  Marco Massari,  Pietro Lampertico,  Maria G. Rumi,  Alessandro Federico,  Alessandra Orlandini,  Alessia Ciancio,  Guglielmo Borgia,  Pietro Andreone,  Nicola Caporaso,  Marcello Persico,  Donatella Ieluzzi,  Salvatore Madonia,  Andrea Gori,  Antonio Gasbarrini,  Carmine Coppola,  Giuseppina Brancaccio,  Angelo Andriulli,  Maria G. Quaranta,  Simona Montilla,  Homie Razavi,  Mario Melazzini,  Stefano Vella,  Antonio Craxì, on behalf of PITER Collaborating Group , 
  • Pages: 2190-2198
  • First Published: 14 June 2018

CIRRHOSIS AND LIVER FAILURE

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Bacterascites: A study of clinical features, microbiological findings, and clinical significance

Rosalie C. Oey,  Henk R. van Buuren,  David M. de Jong,  Nicole S. Erler,  Robert A. de Man, 
  • Pages: 2199-2209
  • First Published: 11 July 2018

See Editorial on Page 2129

Reversal of hypercoagulability in patients with HCV-related cirrhosis after treatment with direct-acting antivirals

Francesco Paolo Russo,  Alberto Zanetto,  Elena Campello,  Cristiana Bulato,  Sarah Shalaby,  Luca Spiezia,  Sabrina Gavasso,  Enrica Franceschet,  Claudia Radu,  Marco Senzolo,  Patrizia Burra,  Ton Lisman,  Paolo Simioni, 
  • Pages: 2210-2218
  • First Published: 08 May 2018
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Treatment with non-selective beta-blockers affects the systemic inflammatory response to bacterial DNA in patients with cirrhosis

Paula Gimenez,  Irma Garcia-Martinez,  Rubén Francés,  Jose M. Gonzalez-Navajas,  Montserrat Mauri,  Rocío Alfayate,  Susana Almenara,  Cayetano Miralles,  Jose M. Palazon,  Fernando Carnicer,  Sonia Pascual,  José Such,  José F. Horga,  Pedro Zapater, 
  • Pages: 2219-2227
  • First Published: 26 May 2018

Long-term outcome in patients with acute liver failure

Antonella Putignano,  Francesco Figorilli,  Eman Alabsawy,  Banwari Agarwal,  Rajiv Jalan, 
  • Pages: 2228-2238
  • First Published: 21 June 2018

CANCER

Short-course carbon-ion radiotherapy for hepatocellular carcinoma: A multi-institutional retrospective study

Kei Shibuya,  Tatsuya Ohno,  Kazuki Terashima,  Shingo Toyama,  Shigeo Yasuda,  Hiroshi Tsuji,  Tomoaki Okimoto,  Yoshiyuki Shioyama,  Kenji Nemoto,  Tadashi Kamada,  Takashi Nakano,  The Japan Carbon Ion Radiotherapy Study Group , 
  • Pages: 2239-2247
  • First Published: 21 September 2018

See Editorial on Page 2132

Serine/threonine protein phosphatase 5 is a potential therapeutic target in cholangiocarcinoma

Ming-Hung Hu,  Tzu-Ting Huang,  Tzu-I Chao,  Li-Ju Chen,  Yen-Lin Chen,  Ming-Hsien Tsai,  Chun-Yu Liu,  Jia-Horng Kao,  Kuen-Feng Chen, 
  • Pages: 2248-2259
  • First Published: 24 May 2018

Impact of hepatocellular carcinoma aetiology and liver function on the benefit of surveillance: A novel approach for the adjustment of lead-time bias

Hidenori Toyoda,  Takashi Kumada,  Toshifumi Tada,  Kazuyuki Mizuno,  Atsushi Hiraoka,  Kunihiko Tsuji,  Toru Ishikawa,  Tomoyuki Akita,  Junko Tanaka, 
  • Pages: 2260-2268
  • First Published: 07 July 2018

The risk of hepatocellular carcinoma within and beyond the first 5 years of entecavir in Korean patients with chronic hepatitis B

Byung Gyu Kim,  Neung Hwa Park,  Seung Bum Lee,  Soyoung Jeon,  Jae Ho Park,  Seok Won Jung,  In Du Jeong,  Sung-Jo Bang,  Jung Woo Shin, 
  • Pages: 2269-2276
  • First Published: 27 July 2018

NAFLD/NASH

Association between bedtime and the prevalence of newly diagnosed non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in adults

Honglei Wang,  Yeqing Gu,  Lixiao Zheng,  Li Liu,  Ge Meng,  Hongmei Wu,  Yang Xia,  Xue Bao,  Hongbin Shi,  Shaomei Sun,  Xing Wang,  Ming Zhou,  Qiyu Jia,  Kun Song,  Qing Zhang,  Kaijun Niu, 
  • Pages: 2277-2286
  • First Published: 31 May 2018

Genetic polymorphisms of the hepatic pathways of fatty liver disease after living donor liver transplantation

King-Wah Chiu,  Shigeru Goto,  Toshiaki Nakano,  Tsung-Hui Hu,  Ding-Wei Chen,  Kuang-Tzu Huang,  Li-Wen Hsu,  Chao-Long Chen, 
  • Pages: 2287-2293
  • First Published: 23 June 2018

Visceral adiposity index as a predictor of NAFLD: A prospective study with 4-year follow-up

Chaonan Xu,  Zhimin Ma,  Yunfeng Wang,  Xiangtong Liu,  Lixin Tao,  Deqiang Zheng,  Xiuhua Guo,  Xinghua Yang, 
  • Pages: 2294-2300
  • First Published: 12 August 2018

Relationship between non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, PNPLA3 I148M genotype and bone mineral density in adolescents

Antonella Mosca,  Danilo Fintini,  Elenora Scorletti,  Marco Cappa,  Laura Paone,  Anna M. Zicari,  Valerio Nobili,  Christopher D. Byrne, 
  • Pages: 2301-2308
  • First Published: 03 September 2018

MISCELLANEOUS

Relationship of muscle cramps to quality of life and sleep disturbance in patients with chronic liver diseases: A nationwide study

Motoh Iwasa,  Yoshiyasu Karino,  Takumi Kawaguchi,  Hiroyuki Nakanishi,  Hisamitsu Miyaaki,  Makoto Shiraki,  Tomoaki Nakajima,  Yasuhiko Sawada,  Hitoshi Yoshiji,  Kiwamu Okita,  Kazuhiko Koike, 
  • Pages: 2309-2316
  • First Published: 27 March 2018

Systemic inflammation and immune cell phenotypes are associated with neuro-psychiatric symptoms in patients with chronic inflammatory liver diseases

Amare Aregay,  Meike Dirks,  Verena Schlaphoff,  Solomon Owusu Sekyere,  Kim Haag,  Christine Susanne Falk,  Julia Hengst,  Birgit Bremer,  Ramona Schuppner,  Michael P. Manns,  Henning Pflugrad,  Markus Cornberg,  Heiner Wedemeyer,  Karin Weissenborn, 
  • Pages: 2317-2328
  • First Published: 30 April 2018

The role of magnetic resonance imaging and endoscopic retrograde cholangiography in the evaluation of disease activity and severity in primary sclerosing cholangitis

Andrea Tenca,  Harri Mustonen,  Kati Lind,  Eila Lantto,  Kaija-Leena Kolho,  Sonja Boyd,  Johanna Arola,  Kalle Jokelainen,  Martti Färkkilä, 
  • Pages: 2329-2339
  • First Published: 14 June 2018

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Be cautious in comparing the seroprevalence of hepatitis E detected at different years in different countries

Yi-Hua Zhou, 
  • Page: 2340
  • First Published: 31 May 2018

Response for letter “Be cautious in comparing the seroprevalence of hepatitis E detected at different years in different countries”

Thomas Horvatits,  Ann-Kathrin Ozga,  Ansgar W. Lohse,  Harry R. Dalton,  Sven Pischke, 
  • Page: 2341
  • First Published: 27 November 2018

No clinical impact of HCV RNA determination at the end of treatment in patients receiving directly acting antivirals

Vincenzo Craviotto,  Laura Lamonaca,  Alessio Aghemo,  Ana Lleo, 
  • Pages: 2342-2342.
  • First Published: 15 September 2018