April 2006 - Volume 43 - Issue 4 : Hepatology (original) (raw)

April 2006 - Volume 43 - Issue 4

Editor-in-Chief:

Gregory J. Gores

Ranking:

Gastroenterology & Hepatology 7/153

• Hepatology Highlights

  • Hepatology highlights†

  Hepatology. April 2006: 43(4):643-645

• News From the NIH

  • Neonatal screening for biliary atresia†

  Jay H. Hoofnagle, Ronald J. Sokol
  Hepatology. April 2006: 43(4):646

• Editorial

  • Role of β‐catenin in the adult liver†‡

  Frank J. Gonzalez
  Hepatology. April 2006: 43(4):650-653

• Concise Review in Mechanisms of Disease

  • Fetal and infantile hemochromatosis†

  Peter F. Whitington
  Hepatology. April 2006: 43(4):654-660

• Perspectives in Clinical Hepatology

  • The clinical and physiological spectrum of interferon‐alpha induced thyroiditis

  Toward a new classification†
  Jamie C. Mandac, Sonal Chaudhry, Kenneth E. Sherman, Yaron Tomer
  Hepatology. April 2006: 43(4):661-672

• Liver Failure and Liver Disease

  • Adrenal insufficiency in patients with cirrhosis, severe sepsis and septic shock†

  Ming‐Hung Tsai, Yun‐Shing Peng, Yung‐Chang Chen, Nai‐Jeng Liu, Yu‐Pin Ho, Ji‐Tseng Fang, Jau‐Min Lien, Chun Yang, Pang‐Chi Chen, Cheng‐Shyong Wu
  Hepatology. April 2006: 43(4):673-681

  • Similarities and differences in outcomes of cirrhosis due to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis and hepatitis C†

  Arun J. Sanyal, Colin Banas, Carol Sargeant, Velimir A. Luketic, Richard K. Sterling, Richard T. Stravitz, Mitchell L. Shiffman, Douglas Heuman, Adrian Coterrell, Robert A. Fisher, Melissa J. Contos, Alan S. Mills
  Hepatology. April 2006: 43(4):682-689

  • A randomized trial of endoscopic treatment of acute gastric variceal hemorrhage

  N‐Butyl‐2‐Cyanoacrylate injection versus band ligation†‡
  Pen‐Chung Tan, Ming‐Chih Hou, Han‐Chieh Lin, Tsu‐Te Liu, Fa‐Yauh Lee, Full‐Young Chang, Shou‐Dong Lee
  Hepatology. April 2006: 43(4):690-697

  • Demonstration of interstitial cerebral edema with diffusion tensor MR imaging in type C hepatic encephalopathy†

  Ravindra A. Kale, Rakesh K. Gupta, Vivek A. Saraswat, Khader M. Hasan, Richa Trivedi, Asht M. Mishra, Piyush Ranjan, Chandra M. Pandey, Ponnada A. Narayana
  Hepatology. April 2006: 43(4):698-706

  • Noncirrhotic portal vein thrombosis exhibits neuropsychological and MR changes consistent with minimal hepatic encephalopathy†

  Beatriz Mínguez, Juan Carlos García‐Pagán, Jaume Bosch, Juan Turnes, Juli Alonso, Alex Rovira, Juan Córdoba
  Hepatology. April 2006: 43(4):707-714

  • Is a leaky gut involved in the pathogenesis of intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy?†‡§

  Humberto Reyes, Rodrigo Zapata, Ismael Hernández, Martín Gotteland, Lorena Sandoval, María Isabel Jirón, Joaquín Palma, Ramón Almuna, Juan Jorge Silva
  Hepatology. April 2006: 43(4):715-722

  • Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy as an indicator of liver and biliary diseases

  A population‐based study†‡
  Anne Ropponen, Reijo Sund, Seija Riikonen, Olavi Ylikorkala, Kristiina Aittomäki
  Hepatology. April 2006: 43(4):723-728

  • Liver‐targeted and peripheral blood alterations of regulatory T cells in primary biliary cirrhosis†

  Ruth Y. Lan, Chunmei Cheng, Zhe‐Xiong Lian, Koichi Tsuneyama, Guo‐Xiang Yang, Yuki Moritoki, Ya‐Hui Chuang, Takafumi Nakamura, Shigeru Saito, Shinji Shimoda, Atsushi Tanaka, Christopher L. Bowlus, Yasuo Takano, Aftab A. Ansari, Ross L. Coppel, M. Eric Gershwin
  Hepatology. April 2006: 43(4):729-737

• Concise Communication

  • Coinheritance of Gilbert syndrome–associated UGT1A1 mutation increases gallstone risk in cystic fibrosis†

  Hermann E. Wasmuth, Hildegard Keppeler, Ulrike Herrmann, Ramin Schirin‐Sokhan, Michael Barker, Frank Lammert
  Hepatology. April 2006: 43(4):738-741

• Viral Hepatitis

  • Interferon α‐2b with and without ribavirin in the treatment of hepatitis B e antigen–positive chronic hepatitis B

  A randomized study†
  Chun‐Jen Liu, Ming‐Yang Lai, You‐Chen Chao, Li‐Ying Liao, Sien‐Sing Yang, Tun‐Jen Hsiao, Tsai‐Yuan Hsieh, Chih‐Lin Lin, Jui‐Ting Hu, Chi‐Ling Chen, Per‐Jer Chen, Jia‐Horng Kao, Ding‐Shinn Chen
  Hepatology. April 2006: 43(4):742-749

  • Characterization of a hepatitis B and hepatitis delta virus receptor binding site†

  Matthias Engelke, Kerry Mills, Stefan Seitz, Petra Simon, Philippe Gripon, Martina Schnölzer, Stephan Urban
  Hepatology. April 2006: 43(4):750-760

  • The non‐immunosuppressive cyclosporin DEBIO‐025 is a potent inhibitor of hepatitis C virus replication _in vitro_†

  Jan Paeshuyse, Artur Kaul, Erik De Clercq, Brigitte Rosenwirth, Jean‐Maurice Dumont, Pietro Scalfaro, Ralf Bartenschlager, Johan Neyts
  Hepatology. April 2006: 43(4):761-770

  • Progression of fibrosis in hepatitis C with and without schistosomiasis

  Correlation with serum markers of fibrosis†
  Sanaa M. Kamal, Bradley Turner, Qi He, Jens Rasenack, Leonardo Bianchi, Ahmed Al Tawil, Ahmed Nooman, Mahmoud Massoud, Margaret James Koziel, Nezam H. Afdhal
  Hepatology. April 2006: 43(4):771-779

  • Steatosis and progression of fibrosis in untreated patients with chronic hepatitis C infection†

  Ponni Perumalswami, David E. Kleiner, Glen Lutchman, Theo Heller, Brian Borg, Yoon Park, T. Jake Liang, Jay H. Hoofnagle, Marc G. Ghany
  Hepatology. April 2006: 43(4):780-787