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    Liver Transplantation: Volume 14, Issue 9

    1229-1386
    September 2008
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T.H.E. Corner

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Assessment and management of psychosocial challenges in pediatric liver transplantation

Eyal Shemesh, 
  • Pages: 1229-1236
  • First Published: 28 August 2008

Editorial

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How accurately and how early can we predict rapid fibrosis progression in hepatitis C virus–infected patients after liver transplantation?†

Miquel Navasa,  Xavier Forns, 
  • Pages: 1237-1239
  • First Published: 28 August 2008
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Predicting the viability of liver allografts procured from non–heart-beating donors: The role of histopathology†

Tong Wu, 
  • Pages: 1240-1242
  • First Published: 28 August 2008
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Liver transplantation for acute liver failure: Not too early but never too late†

Chung-Mau Lo, 
  • Pages: 1243-1244
  • First Published: 28 August 2008
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Metabolic syndrome in liver transplantation: The elephant in the room†

Lisa M. Forman, 
  • Pages: 1245-1248
  • First Published: 28 August 2008

Review

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Iron overload and unique susceptibility of liver transplant recipients to disseminated disease due to opportunistic pathogens

Nina Singh,  Hsin-Yun Sun, 
  • Pages: 1249-1255
  • First Published: 28 August 2008

Original Articles

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The extent of vacuolation in non–heart-beating porcine donor liver grafts prior to transplantation predicts their viability†‡

Diethard Monbaliu,  Louis Libbrecht,  Rita De Vos,  Katrien Vekemans,  Hugo Walter,  Qiang Liu,  Veerle Heedfeld,  Vera Goossens,  Jacques Pirenne,  Tania Roskams, 
  • Pages: 1256-1265
  • First Published: 28 August 2008
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Hemodynamic and metabolic efficacy of dopamine versus norepinephrine in a brain-dead swine model†

Ahmed Zaky,  Ernesto A. Pretto Jr,  Steven A. Earle,  Emanuele Piraccini,  Jennifer E. Zuccarelli,  Kristopher L. Arheart,  Kenneth G. Proctor, 
  • Pages: 1266-1272
  • First Published: 28 August 2008
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Outcomes of living donor liver transplantation for acute liver failure: The adult-to-adult living donor liver transplantation cohort study†‡§

Jeffrey Campsen,  Andres T. Blei,  Jean C. Emond,  James E. Everhart,  Chris E. Freise,  Anna S. Lok,  Sammy Saab,  Karen A. Wisniewski,  James F. Trotter,  Adult-to-Adult Living Donor Liver Transplantation Cohort Study Group , 
  • Pages: 1273-1280
  • First Published: 28 August 2008
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Liver transplantation for autoimmune hepatitis and the success of aggressive corticosteroid withdrawal†

Jeffrey Campsen,  Michael A. Zimmerman,  James F. Trotter,  Michael Wachs,  Thomas Bak,  Tracy Steinberg,  Maria Kaplan,  Franklin Wright,  Igal Kam, 
  • Pages: 1281-1286
  • First Published: 28 August 2008
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The significance of metabolic syndrome in the setting of recurrent hepatitis C after liver transplantation†

Ibrahim A. Hanouneh,  Ariel E. Feldstein,  Arthur J. McCullough,  Charles Miller,  Federico Aucejo,  Lisa Yerian,  Rocio Lopez,  Nizar N. Zein, 
  • Pages: 1287-1293
  • First Published: 28 August 2008
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Serum fibrosis markers can predict rapid fibrosis progression after liver transplantation for hepatitis C†‡

Surakit Pungpapong,  David P. Nunes,  Murli Krishna,  Raouf Nakhleh,  Kyle Chambers,  Marwan Ghabril,  Rolland C. Dickson,  Christopher B. Hughes,  Jeffery Steers,  Justin H. Nguyen,  Andrew P. Keaveny, 
  • Pages: 1294-1302
  • First Published: 28 August 2008
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Long-term outcome of mycophenolate mofetil rescue therapy for resistant acute allograft rejection in pediatric liver transplant recipients

Marion Margaret Aw,  Anita Verma,  Mohamed Rela,  Nigel Heaton,  Giorgina Mieli-Vergani,  Anil Dhawan, 
  • Pages: 1303-1308
  • First Published: 28 August 2008
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Chickenpox-associated fulminant hepatitis that led to liver transplantation in a 63-year-old woman

Anne-Marie Roque-Afonso,  Marie-Pierre Bralet,  Philippe Ichai,  Delphine Desbois,  Parissa Vaghefi,  Denis Castaing,  Didier Samuel,  Elisabeth Dussaix, 
  • Pages: 1309-1312
  • First Published: 28 August 2008
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Monitoring peripheral blood CD4+ adenosine triphosphate activity in a liver transplant cohort: Insight into the interplay between hepatitis C virus infection and cellular immunity

Michel Mendler,  Hansen Kwok,  Edson Franco,  Pedro Baron,  Jill Weissman,  Okechukwu Ojogho, 
  • Pages: 1313-1322
  • First Published: 28 August 2008
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Percutaneous transhepatic treatment of hepaticojejunal anastomotic biliary strictures after living donor liver transplantation

Gi-Young Ko,  Kyu-Bo Sung,  Hyun-Ki Yoon,  Kyung Rae Kim,  Dong Il Gwon,  Sung Gyu Lee, 
  • Pages: 1323-1332
  • First Published: 28 August 2008
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Improvement of impaired albumin binding capacity in acute-on-chronic liver failure by albumin dialysis

Sebastian Klammt,  Steffen R. Mitzner,  Jan Stange,  Jan Loock,  Uwe Heemann,  Jörg Emmrich,  Emil C. Reisinger,  Reinhard Schmidt, 
  • Pages: 1333-1339
  • First Published: 28 August 2008
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Protection from phototoxic injury during surgery and endoscopy in erythropoietic protoporphyria

Staffan Wahlin,  Nirthiga Srikanthan,  Børge Hamre,  Pauline Harper,  Atle Brun, 
  • Pages: 1340-1346
  • First Published: 28 August 2008
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Effect of hospital volume and teaching status on outcomes of acute liver failure

Ashwin N. Ananthakrishnan,  Emily L. McGinley,  Kia Saeian, 
  • Pages: 1347-1356
  • First Published: 28 August 2008
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Risk factors and impact of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in candidates for liver transplantation

Debbie Rybak,  Michael B. Fallon,  Michael J. Krowka,  Robert S. Brown Jr,  Jenna Reinen,  Linda Stadheim,  Dorothy Faulk,  Carrie Nielsen,  Nadine Al-Naamani,  Kari Roberts,  Steven Zacks,  Ted Perry,  James Trotter,  Steven M. Kawut,  Pulmonary Vascular Complications of Liver Disease Study Group , 
  • Pages: 1357-1365
  • First Published: 28 August 2008
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Accuracy of an age-adjusted formula in assessing the graft volume in living donor liver transplantation

Hiroto Kayashima,  Akinobu Taketomi,  Yusuke Yonemura,  Hideki Ijichi,  Noboru Harada,  Tomoharu Yoshizumi,  Yuji Soejima,  Kengo Yoshimitsu,  Yoshihiko Maehara, 
  • Pages: 1366-1371
  • First Published: 28 August 2008

Liver Transplantation Worldwide

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Biliary tract complications: The most common postoperative complication in living liver donors

James D. Perkins M.D., 
  • Pages: 1372-1377
  • First Published: 28 August 2008

Images in Liver Transplantation

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Venoplasty of hepatic venous outflow with a venous patch in domino liver transplantation

Chinsu Liu,  Che-Chuan Loong,  Chenn-Yuan Hsia,  Mei-Yung Tsou,  Hsin-Lin Tsai,  Chou-Fu Wei, 
  • Pages: 1378-1379
  • First Published: 28 August 2008
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Left-to-right approach facilitates total hepatectomy with caval flow preservation

Federica Dondéro,  Guido Liddo,  Wellington Andraus,  Daniele Sommacale,  Alain Sauvanet,  Jacques Belghiti, 
  • Pages: 1380-1382
  • First Published: 28 August 2008

Letter to the Editors

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Might rapid virological response be used as a stopping rule in liver transplant recipients treated with pegylated interferon plus ribavirin?

Maria Francesca Donato,  Francesca Agnelli,  Cristina Rigamonti,  Eliana Arosio,  Massimo Colombo, 
  • Pages: 1383-1384
  • First Published: 28 August 2008
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Reply: Might rapid virological response be used as a stopping rule in liver transplant recipients treated with pegylated interferon plus ribavirin?

Nizar N. Zein M.D.,  Ibrahim A. Hanouneh M.D., 
  • Page: 1385
  • First Published: 28 August 2008

Erratum

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Erratum

  • Page: 1386
  • First Published: 28 August 2008