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Thuluvath, A. J., & Verna, E. C. (2025). Utilization of fibrotic HCV-viremic grafts in liver transplantation: An emerging opportunity or a step too far? Liver Transplantation. https://doi.org/10.1097/lvt.0000000000000627
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Hwang, S. Y., Stoffel, E., Kim, D. S., Verna, E., & Zhang, W. (2025). Racial Disparities of Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease and Its Complications in Hospitalized Patients With Alcohol Use Disorder. Gastro Hep Advances, 4(4), 100592. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gastha.2024.100592
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Jossen, J., Lebwohl, B., Söderling, J., Duberg, A.-S., Aleman, S., Sharma, R., Hagström, H., Green, P. H. R., & Ludvigsson, J. F. (2025). No Increased Risk of Hepatitis B Virus Infection in Patients with Celiac Disease: A Population-Based Study. Digestive Diseases and Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10620-025-08878-3
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Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons; Department of Pediatrics; Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition; Department of Medicine; Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases; Mailman School of Public Health; Department of Epidemiology; Celiac Disease Center; Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation
Roldan, G. A., Tricarico, C., & Brown, R. S., Jr (2024). Alcohol Use Disorder and Alcohol-Associated Liver Disease: New Definitions, Screening, and Treatment. Gastroenterology & hepatology, 20(11), 662–671.
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Dunn, W., Li, Y., Singal, A. K., Simonetto, D. A., Díaz, L. A., Idalsoaga, F., Ayares, G., Arnold, J., Ayala-Valverde, M., Perez, D., Gomez, J., Escarate, R., Fuentes-López, E., Ramirez-Cadiz, C., Morales-Arraez, D., Zhang, W., Qian, S., Ahn, J. C., Buryska, S., … Arab, J. P. (2024). An artificial intelligence-generated model predicts 90-day survival in alcohol-associated hepatitis: A global cohort study. Hepatology, 80(5), 1196–1211. https://doi.org/10.1097/hep.0000000000000883
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Sharma, R., Hogarth, D. K., Colbaugh, R., Glass, K., Mezine, A., Liakoni, V., Rudolf, C., Himmelhan, I., Hinson, J., & Sanchirico, M. (2024). Machine-Learning Model Identifies Patients With Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency Using Claims Records. COPD, 21(1), 2393348. https://doi.org/10.1080/15412555.2024.2393348
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Cook, J. R., Bedeir, N., Sone, Z. D., Wattacheril, J., Ginsberg, H. N., & Laferrère, B. (2024). Single Dose of Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinase Inhibitor Alpelisib Induces Insulin Resistance in Healthy Adults: A Randomized Feasibility Study. Diabetes, 73(12), 2003–2008. https://doi.org/10.2337/db24-0402
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Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons; Department of Medicine; Division of Endocrinology; Division of Digestive and Liver Diseases; Division of Preventive Medicine and Nutrition; Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation; Department of Pediatrics; Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism
Wang, M., Shui, A. M., Huang, C.-Y., Kappus, M. R., Rahimi, R., Verna, E. C., Ruck, J., King, E. A., Ladner, D. P., Tevar, A. D., Volk, M. L., Duarte-Rojo, A., Ganger, D., & Lai, J. C. (2024). The liver frailty index enhances mortality risk prediction above and beyond MELD 3.0 alone. Liver Transplantation. https://doi.org/10.1097/lvt.0000000000000436
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Wang, M., Chiou, S. H., Ganger, D., Ruck, J., Huang, C.-Y., Kappus, M. R., King, E. A., Ladner, D. P., Rahimi, R. S., Duarte-Rojo, A., Volk, M. L., Tevar, A. D., Verna, E. C., & Lai, J. C. (2024). Liver transplantation provides survival benefit at all levels of frailty: From the Multicenter Functional Assessment in Liver Transplantation Study. Hepatology. https://doi.org/10.1097/hep.0000000000001030
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Cullaro, G., Allegretti, A. S., Patidar, K. R., Verna, E. C., & Lai, J. C. (2024). Cystatin C and the difference between cystatin C and serum creatinine: Improved metrics to predict waitlist mortality among decompensated cirrhosis patients. Liver Transplantation. https://doi.org/10.1097/lvt.0000000000000439
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Wang, M., Shui, A. M., Ruck, J., Huang, C.-Y., Verna, E. C., King, E. A., Ladner, D. P., Ganger, D., Kappus, M., Rahimi, R., Tevar, A. D., Duarte-Rojo, A., & Lai, J. C. (2024). Clinically relevant cut-points for changes in the Liver Frailty Index are associated with waitlist mortality in patients with cirrhosis. Liver Transplantation. https://doi.org/10.1097/lvt.0000000000000418
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Thuluvath, A. J., & Verna, E. C. (2024). Deciphering an expanding array of clinical and research frailty measures. Clinical Liver Disease, 23(1). https://doi.org/10.1097/cld.0000000000000180
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Matsumoto, R., Verna, E. C., Rosenblatt, R., Emond, J. C., Brown, R. S., Rahnemai-Azar, A. A., Samstein, B., Dove, L. M., & Kato, T. (2024). No Improvement in Intention-to-treat Survival and Increasing Liver Nonutilization Rate During the MELD Era. Transplantation. https://doi.org/10.1097/tp.0000000000005018
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Sharma, R., Simon, T. G., Hagström, H., Lochhead, P., Roelstraete, B., Söderling, J., Verna, E. C., Emond, J., & Ludvigsson, J. F. (2024). Statins Are Associated With a Decreased Risk of Severe Liver Disease in Individuals With Noncirrhotic Chronic Liver Disease. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 22(4), 749-759.e19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cgh.2023.04.017
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Garcia, J., Oltean, M., Rumbo, C., Sharkey, L., Kaufman, S. S., Ramos Boluda, E., Gupte, G., Martinez, M., Moon, J., Raghu, V., Segovia, M. C., Sudan, D., Talbotec, C., Varkey, J., Gondolesi, G. E., Mazariegos, G., & Venick, R. (2024). Endoscopic Surveillance of the Intestinal Allograft: Recommendations From the Intestinal Rehabilitation and Transplant Association Working Group. Transplantation, 108(4), 827–835. https://doi.org/10.1097/tp.0000000000004785
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Matsumoto, R., & Kato, T. (2024). Intestinal Transplantation. Gastroenterology Clinics of North America, 53(2), 281–288. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gtc.2023.12.002
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Aleyadeh, W., Verna, E. C., Elbeshbeshy, H., Sulkowski, M. S., Smith, C., Darling, J., Sterling, R. K., Muir, A., Akushevich, L., La, D., Terrault, N., Fried, M. W., & Feld, J. J. (2024). Outcomes of early vs late treatment initiation in solid organ transplantation from hepatitis C virus nucleic acid test-positive donors to hepatitis C virus-uninfected recipients: Results from the HCV-TARGET study. American Journal of Transplantation, 24(3), 468–478. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajt.2023.10.006
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Lazarus, J. V., Mark, H. E., Allen, A. M., Arab, J. P., Carrieri, P., Noureddin, M., Alazawi, W., Alkhouri, N., Alqahtani, S. A., Anstee, Q. M., Arrese, M., Bataller, R., Berg, T., Brennan, P. N., Burra, P., Castro-Narro, G. E., Cortez-Pinto, H., Cusi, K., … Dedes, N. (2023). A global action agenda for turning the tide on fatty liver disease. Hepatology, 79(2), 502–523. https://doi.org/10.1097/hep.0000000000000545
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Vinogradsky, A. V., Nguyen, S. N., Mathur, A., & Takeda, K. (2024). Liberal use of veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in combined sequential heart-liver transplantation. Perfusion. https://doi.org/10.1177/02676591241228975
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Ivanics, T., Claasen, M. P. A. W., Samstein, B., Emond, J. C., Fox, A. N., Pomfret, E., Pomposelli, J., Tabrizian, P., Florman, S. S., Mehta, N., Roberts, J. P., Emamaullee, J. A., Genyk, Y., Hernandez-Alejandro, R., Tomiyama, K., Sasaki, K., Hashimoto, K., Nagai, S., … Abouljoud, M. (2023). Living Donor Liver Transplantation for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Within and Outside Traditional Selection Criteria. Annals of Surgery, 279(1), 104–111. https://doi.org/10.1097/sla.0000000000006049
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Aryan, M., Qian, S., Chen, Z., Louissaint, J., Qian, X., Rosenblatt, R., Verna, E., Brown, R., Wong, R., Clark, V., & Zhang, W. (2023). Patients with early-stage alcohol-associated liver disease are at increased risk of hospital readmission and death. European Journal of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, 36(3), 318–325. https://doi.org/10.1097/meg.0000000000002701
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Kong, X.-F., Bogyo, K., Kapoor, S., Shea, P. R., Groopman, E. E., Thomas-Wilson, A., Cocchi, E., Milo Rasouly, H., Zheng, B., Sun, S., Zhang, J., Martinez, M., Vittorio, J. M., Dove, L. M., Marasa, M., Wang, T. C., Verna, E. C., Worman, H. J., Gharavi, A. G., … Wattacheril, J. (2023). The diagnostic yield of exome sequencing in liver diseases from a curated gene panel. Scientific Reports, 13(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-42202-1
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Ruck, J. M., Shui, A. M., Jefferis, A. A., Duarte Rojo, A., Rahimi, R. S., Ganger, D. R., Verna, E. C., Kappus, M., Ladner, D. P., Segev, D. L., Volk, M., Tevar, A., King, E. A., & Lai, J. C. (2023). Association of body mass index with post‐liver transplant outcomes. Clinical Transplantation, 38(1). Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/ctr.15205
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Kaplan, A., Lee-Riddle, G. S., Nobel, Y., Dove, L., Shenoy, A., Rosenblatt, R., Samstein, B., Emond, J. C., & Brown, R. S. (2023). National survey of second opinions for hospitalized patients in need of liver transplantation. Liver Transplantation, 29(12), 1264–1271. https://doi.org/10.1097/lvt.0000000000000213
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Pillai, A., Goldaracena, N., Rosenblatt, R., & Verna, E. C. (2023). CAQ Corner: Evaluation and management of living liver donors. Liver Transplantation, 29(10), 1118–1128. https://doi.org/10.1097/lvt.0000000000000183
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Slowik, V., Ryan, J. L., Shah, A. A., & Lobritto, S. J. (2023). Monitoring Practices After Pediatric Liver Transplantation. Journal of Pediatric Gastroenterology & Nutrition, 77(4), 448–454. https://doi.org/10.1097/mpg.0000000000003909
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Merola, J., Emond, J. C., & Levitsky, J. (2023). Novel Noninvasive Biomarkers in Liver Transplantation: A Tool on the Doorstep of Clinical Utilization. Transplantation, 107(10), 2120–2125. https://doi.org/10.1097/tp.0000000000004580
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Wattacheril, J. J., Abdelmalek, M. F., Lim, J. K., & Sanyal, A. J. (2023). AGA Clinical Practice Update on the Role of Noninvasive Biomarkers in the Evaluation and Management of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: Expert Review. Gastroenterology, 165(4), 1080–1088. https://doi.org/10.1053/j.gastro.2023.06.013
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Weiner, J., Llore, N., Ormsby, D., Fujiki, M., Segovia, M. C., Obri, M., Jafri, S.-M., Liggett, J., Kroemer, A. H. K., Matsumoto, C., Moon, J., Di Cocco, P., Selvaggi, G., Garcia, J., Ganoza, A., Khanna, A., Mazariegos, G., Wendel, D., & Reyes, J. (2023). The First Collective Examination of Immunosuppressive Practices Among American Intestinal Transplant Centers. Transplantation Direct, 9(9), e1512. https://doi.org/10.1097/txd.0000000000001512
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Thompson, R. J., Artan, R., Baumann, U., Calvo, P. L., Czubkowski, P., Dalgic, B., D’Antiga, L., Di Giorgio, A., Durmaz, Ö., Gonzalès, E., Grammatikopoulos, T., Gupte, G., Hardikar, W., Houwen, R. H. J., Kamath, B. M., Karpen, S. J., Lacaille, F., Lachaux, A., Lainka, E., … Kjems, L. (2023). Interim results from an ongoing, open-label, single-arm trial of odevixibat in progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis. JHEP Reports, 5(8), 100782. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhepr.2023.100782
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Wong, R. J., Ge, J., Boike, J., German, M., Morelli, G., Spengler, E., Said, A., Desai, A., Couri, T., Paul, S., Frenette, C., Verna, E. C., Goel, A., Fallon, M., Thornburg, B., VanWagner, L., Lai, J. C., & Kolli, K. P. (2023). Change in Platelet Count after Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt Creation: An Advancing Liver Therapeutic Approaches (ALTA) Group Study. Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, 34(8), 1364–1371. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvir.2023.04.015
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Bommena, S., Mahmud, N., Boike, J. R., Thornburg, B. G., Kolli, K. P., Lai, J. C., German, M., Morelli, G., Spengler, E., Said, A., Desai, A. P., Junna, S., Paul, S., Frenette, C., Verna, E. C., Goel, A., Gregory, D., Padilla, C., … VanWagner, L. B. (2023). The impact of right atrial pressure on outcomes in patients undergoing TIPS, an ALTA group study. Hepatology, 77(6), 2041–2051. https://doi.org/10.1097/hep.0000000000000283
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Tsochatzis, E. A., Watt, K. D., VanWagner, L. B., Verna, E. C., & Berzigotti, A. (2023). Evaluation of recipients with significant comorbidity – Patients with cardiovascular disease. Journal of Hepatology, 78(6), 1089–1104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhep.2023.03.023
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Lotan, D., DeFilippis, E. M., Oren, D., Vinogradsky, A., Rubinstein, G., Mathur, A., Takeda, K., Hua, M., Gaglio, P. J., Szabolcs, M. J., Sayer, G., Uriel, N., Iglesias, A. D., & Latif, F. (2023). Combined heart and liver transplantation in a patient supported by left ventricular assist device (LVAD) with propionic acidemia. Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases, 33(3), 667–670. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.numecd.2022.12.022
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Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons; Department of Medicine; Seymour, Paul, and Gloria Milstein Division of Cardiology; Department of Surgery; Division of Cardiac, Thoracic, and Vascular Surgery; Department of Anesthesiology; Department of Pediatrics; Division of Clinical Genetics; Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation
Lai, J. C., Shui, A. M., Duarte-Rojo, A., Rahimi, R. S., Ganger, D. R., Verna, E. C., Volk, M. L., Kappus, M., Ladner, D. P., Boyarsky, B., Segev, D. L., Gao, Y., Huang, C.-Y., & Singer, J. P. (2023). Association of Frailty With Health-Related Quality of Life in Liver Transplant Recipients. JAMA Surgery, 158(2), 130. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamasurg.2022.6387
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Di Benedetto, F., Magistri, P., Di Sandro, S., Sposito, C., Oberkofler, C., Brandon, E., Samstein, B., Guidetti, C., Papageorgiou, A., Frassoni, S., Bagnardi, V., Clavien, P.-A., Citterio, D., Kato, T., Petrowsky, H., Halazun, K. J., Mazzaferro, V., Catellani, B., … Flores, M. (2023). Safety and Efficacy of Robotic vs Open Liver Resection for Hepatocellular Carcinoma. JAMA Surgery, 158(1), 46. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamasurg.2022.5697
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Sharma, R., Simon, T. G., Stephansson, O., Verna, E. C., Emond, J., Söderling, J., Roelstraete, B., Hagström, H., & Ludvigsson, J. F. (2023). Pregnancy Outcomes in Women With Autoimmune Hepatitis – A Nationwide Population-based Cohort Study With Histopathology. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 21(1), 103-114.e10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cgh.2021.12.024
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Wattacheril, J. J., Raj, S., Knowles, D. A., & Greally, J. M. (2023). Using epigenomics to understand cellular responses to environmental influences in diseases. PLOS Genetics, 19(1), e1010567. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010567
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Cullaro, G., Verna, E. C., McCulloch, C. E., & Lai, J. C. (2022). Improving the Model for End‐Stage Liver Disease with sodium by incorporating kidney dysfunction types. Hepatology, 76(3), 689–699. https://doi.org/10.1002/hep.32448
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Culpepper-Morgan, J. A., Guillaume, A., Louissaint, J., & Williams, R. (2022). Black voices in gastroenterology and hepatology. Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology, 19(9), 559–563. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41575-022-00642-6
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Matsumoto, H., Boby, A. Z., Sinha, R., Campbell, M. L., Hung, C. W., Gbolo, F. C., Marciano, G. F., Levine, S., Fano, A. N., Simhon, M. E., Quan, T., Bainton, N. M., George, A., Mizerik, A. S., Roye, B. D., Roye, D. P., & Vitale, M. G. (2022). Development and Validation of a Health-Related Quality-of-Life Measure in Older Children and Adolescents with Early-Onset Scoliosis. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 104(15), 1393–1405. https://doi.org/10.2106/jbjs.21.01508
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Ching, C. K., Nobel, Y. R., Pereira, M. R., & Verna, E. C. (2022). The role of gastrointestinal pathogen polymerase chain reaction testing in liver transplant recipients hospitalized with diarrhea. Transplant Infectious Disease, 24(4). Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/tid.13873
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Shenoy, A., Salajegheh, A., & Shen, N. T. (2022). Multimodal multidisciplinary management of alcohol use disorder in liver transplant candidates and recipients. Translational Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 7, 28–28. https://doi.org/10.21037/tgh.2020.02.22
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Ufere, N. N., Patzer, R. E., Kavalieratos, D., Louissaint, J., Kaplan, A., & Cross, S. H. (2022). Rural-Urban Disparities in Mortality From Cirrhosis in the United States From 1999 to 2019. American Journal of Gastroenterology, 117(7), 1162–1165. https://doi.org/10.14309/ajg.0000000000001712
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Cullaro, G., Rubin, J. B., Fortune, B. E., Crawford, C. V., Verna, E. C., Hsu, C., Liu, K. D., Brown, R. S., Lai, J. C., & Rosenblatt, R. (2021). Association Between Kidney Dysfunction Types and Mortality Among Hospitalized Patients with Cirrhosis. Digestive Diseases and Sciences, 67(7), 3426–3435. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10620-021-07159-z
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Lai, J. C., Shui, A. M., Duarte‐Rojo, A., Ganger, D. R., Rahimi, R. S., Huang, C., Yao, F., Kappus, M., Boyarsky, B., McAdams‐Demarco, M., Volk, M. L., Dunn, M. A., Ladner, D. P., Segev, D. L., Verna, E. C., & Feng, S. (2021). Frailty, mortality, and health care utilization after liver transplantation: From the Multicenter Functional Assessment in Liver Transplantation (FrAILT) Study. Hepatology, 75(6), 1471–1479. https://doi.org/10.1002/hep.32268
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Perito, E. R., Persyn, E., Bucuvalas, J., Martinez, M., Mohammad, S., Squires, J. E., Demetris, A. J., & Feng, S. (2022). Graft Fibrosis Over 10 to 15 Years in Pediatric Liver Transplant Recipients: Multicenter Study of Paired, Longitudinal Surveillance Biopsies. Liver Transplantation, 28(6), 1051–1062. https://doi.org/10.1002/lt.26409
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Fox, A. N., Liapakis, A., Batra, R., Bittermann, T., Emamaullee, J., Emre, S., Genyk, Y., Han, H., Jackson, W., Pomfret, E., Raza, M., Rodriguez‐Davalos, M., Rubman Gold, S., Samstein, B., Shenoy, A., Taner, T., & Roberts, J. P. (2022). The use of nondirected donor organs in living donor liver transplantation: Perspectives and guidance. Hepatology, 75(6), 1579–1589. https://doi.org/10.1002/hep.32260
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Jiménez, C., Ventura‐Cots, M., Sala, M., Calafat, M., Garcia‐Retortillo, M., Cirera, I., Cañete, N., Soriano, G., Poca, M., Simón‐Talero, M., Altamirano, J., Lucey, M., Garcia‐Tsao, G., Brown, R. S., Schwabe, R. F., Verna, E. C., Schnabl, B., Bosques‐Padilla, F., Mathurin, P., … Vargas, V. (2022). Effect of rifaximin on infections, acute‐on‐chronic liver failure and mortality in alcoholic hepatitis: A pilot study (RIFA‐AH). Liver International, 42(5), 1109–1120. Portico. https://doi.org/10.1111/liv.15207
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Cullaro, G., Verna, E. C., Duarte‐Rojo, A., Kappus, M. R., Ganger, D. R., Rahimi, R. S., Boyarsky, B., Segev, D. L., McAdams‐DeMarco, M., Ladner, D. P., Volk, M. L., Hsu, C., & Lai, J. C. (2021). Frailty and the Risk of Acute Kidney Injury Among Patients With Cirrhosis. Hepatology Communications, 6(4), 910–919. https://doi.org/10.1002/hep4.1840
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