HEPATOLOGY HIGHLIGHTS
Nahum Méndez-Sánchez

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

Clinical studies / Viral Hepatitis

Pegylated interferon-alpha2b plus ribavirin for the treatment of chronic hepatitis C virus genotype 4 infection in patients with normal serum ALT
Jaber Al-Ali, Iqbal Siddique, Rosh Varghese, Fuad Hasan

Prevalence of hepatitis A, B and C serological markers in children from western Mexico
Griselda Escobedo-Meléndez, Nora A. Fierro, Sonia Roman, Monserrat Maldonado-González, Eloy Zepeda-Carrillo, Arturo Panduro

Serum N-glycomic markers in combination with panels improves the diagnosis of chronic hepatitis B
Ying Qu, Chun-Fang Gao, Kun Zhou, Yun-Peng Zhao, Ming-Yi Xu, Lun-Gen Lu

Liver transplantation

Predictive factors of abstinence in patients undergoing liver transplantation for alcoholic liver disease
José Altamirano, Ramón Bataller, Andres Cardenas,Javier Michelena, Neus Freixa, Miquel Monrás, José Ríos, Alexandre Liccioni, Juan Caballería, Antoni Gual, Anna Lligoña

Liver transplantation for autoimmune hepatitis in Peru: outcomes and recurrence
Martín Padilla, Rosario Mayorga, Félix Carrasco, Tayana Bedregal, Fernando Bobadilla, Carlos Rondón, José Chaman

Non alcoholic fatty liver disease

Evidence for liver injury in the setting of obstructive sleep apnea
Thomas J. Byrne, James M. Parish, Virend Somers, Bashar A. Aqel, Jorge Rakela

Micellaneous

Renal and circulatory effects of large volume plasma expansion in patients with hepatorenal syndrome type 1
Andreas Umgelter, Katrin S. Wagner, Wolfgang Reindl, Peter B. Luppa, Fabian Geisler, Wolfgang Huber, Roland M. Schmid

The prevalence and clinical characteristics of glucose metabolism disorders in patients with liver cirrhosis. A prospective study
Diego García-Compeán, Joel Omar Jáquez- Quintana, Fernando Javier Lavalle-González, Erick Reyes-Cabello, José Alberto González-González, Linda Elsa Muñoz-Espinosa, Genaro Vázquez-Elizondo, Jesús Zacarías Villarreal-Pérez, Héctor J. Maldonado-Garza

A comparison study of local injection and radiofrequency ablation therapy for traumatic portal vein injure guided by contrast-enhanced ultrasonography
Yukun Luo, Qiang Liu, Ziyu Jiao, Rong Wu, Jie Tang, Faqin Lv

Increased mortality from acute liver failure in Mexico
Norberto C. Chávez-Tapia, Tonatiuh Barrientos-Gutiérrez, Carlos Manuel Guerrero-López, Jean Josue Santiago-Hernández, Nahum Méndez-Sánchez, Misael Uribe

IMAGES IN HEPATOLOGY

Portal vein aneurysm: is it an incidental finding only?
Sameer Vyas, Divyesh Mahajan, Manavjeet Singh Sandhu, Ajay Duseja, Niranjan Khandelwal

CASE REPORTS

Fulminant hepatitis during self-medication with conjugated linoleic acid
Rita Nortadas, José Barata

Recurrent pyogenic cholangitis in a case with congenital biliary anomaly
Seyfettin Köklü, Mehmet Ali Akkus, Adnan Tas, Zeliha Tufan,Yusuf Tanrikulu, Murat Kekilli, Erdem Kocak, Mehmet Alparslan Gönültas, Ömer Yimaz

LIVER NEWS ELSEWHERE

Cellular microRNA and the tumorigenesis of hepatocellular carcinoma
Yu Li, Kris V. Kowdley