Annals ofTransplants

Volume: 4 - Number: 29 - April 15, 2006

Outstanding

Endothelin and vascular function in liver disease

Inappropriate ileal conservation of bile acids in cholestatic liver disease: homeostasis gone awry

Progression of hepatic fibrosis in patients with hepatitis C: a prospective repeat liver biopsy study

Liver fibrosis is not associated with steatosis but with necroinflammation in French patients with chronic hepatitis C

Articles

Endothelin and vascular function in liver disease

Commentaries

Inappropriate ileal conservation of bile acids in cholestatic liver disease: homeostasis gone awry

Letters

Liver fibrosis: natural history may be affected by the biopsy sample

Crohn’s ileitis after liver transplantation from a living-related donor with Crohn’s disease

Responses to endothelin-1 in patients with advanced cirrhosis before and after liver transplantation

To perform or not to perform liver biopsy: an alternative view

Liver

A role for thrombin in liver fibrosis

Increased prevalence of fatty liver in arterial hypertensive patients with normal liver enzymes: role of insulin resistance

Long term prognosis of fatty liver: risk of chronic liver disease and death

Liver microbubble transit time compared with histology and Child-Pugh score in diffuse liver disease: a cross sectional study

Expression of insulin-like growth factor I by activated hepatic stellate cells reduces fibrogenesis and enhances regeneration after liver injury

Effect of antiviral treatment on evolution of liver steatosis in patients with chronic hepatitis C: indirect evidence of a role of hepatitis C virus genotype 3 in steatosis

Modest weight loss and physical activity in overweight patients with chronic liver disease results in sustained improvements in alanine aminotransferase, fasting insulin, and quality of life

Improved characterisation of histologically proven liver tumours by contrast enhanced ultrasonography during the portal venous and specific late phase of SHU 508A

Evidence for altered vascular responses to exogenous endothelin-1 in patients with advanced cirrhosis with restoration of the normal vasoconstrictor response following successful liver transplantation

Mutations in SRD5B1 (AKR1D1), the gene encoding 4-3-oxosteroid 5ß-reductase, in hepatitis and liver failure in infancy

Upregulation of lymphotoxin ß expression in liver progenitor (oval) cells in chronic hepatitis C

Liver fibrosis

Progression of hepatic fibrosis in patients with hepatitis C: a prospective repeat liver biopsy study

VIRAL HEPATITIS:

Liver fibrosis is not associated with steatosis but with necroinflammation in French patients with chronic hepatitis C

Distribution of hepatitis B viral genotypes and mutations in the core promoter and precore regions in acute forms of liver disease in patients from Chiba, Japan