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Original Article
An albumin-bilirubin-based multivariable model for fairly predicting perioperative mortality after liver transplantation in the modern era
Yixian Huang, Bi Pan, Xiaoyi Fan, Tao Lv, Jian Yang, Kunlin Xie, JiuLin Song, Lingxiang Kong, Jingsheng Yuan, Xi Xu, Chen Jin, Chengcheng Zhang, Yuancheng Li, Hongji Yang, Xingchao Liu, Zhu Li, Shaohua Song, Zhengxin Wang, Yifeng Tao, Yi Zhang, Leida Zhang, Gang Xu, Lvnan Yan, Hong Wu, Jiayin Yang
Published online: 26 April 2026
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Distinguishing microvascular invasion and satellite nodules: correlation with outcomes after hepatectomy for hepatocellular carcinoma
Zhen-Qi Li, Ze-Tao Yu, Tian-Chen Zhang, Yu Cao, Ming-Gen Hu, Han Wang, Nian-Xin Xia, Wen-Chao Zhao, Xiong Chen, Shuai Xu, Guang Tan, Chao Lin, Tao Jiang, Yun-Fei Xu, Fan Zhang, Zhong-Hua Liu, Hong-Xing Jiang, Qing-Qiang Ni, Yu-Fu Tang, Yi-Lin Hu, Yi-Meng Lu, Yi-Ren Hu, Kai Wang, Zhi-Qiang Wang, Rui-Fang Fan, Jian-Hua Lin, Mao-Lin Yan, Xiao-Dong Tan, Shu-Qun Cheng, Xiu-Ping Zhang, Rong Liu
Published online: 25 April 2026
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Impact of expert centers annual case volume on outcomes of minimally-invasive liver resections: international multicenter study
Federica Cipriani, Francesca Ratti, Nicholas L. Syn, Ken-Min Chin, Qu Liu, Wanguang Zhang, Giuseppe Zimmitti, Davit L. Aghayan, Tiing-Foong Siow, Olivier Scatton, Paulo Herman, Safi Dokmak, Vincenzo Mazzaferro, Adrian K. H. Chiow, Iswanto Sucandy, Arpad Ivanecz, Sung-Hoon Choi, Jae Hoon Lee, Mikel Prieto, Marco Vivarelli, Felice Giuliante, Andrea Ruzzenente, Chee-Chien Yong, Zewei Chen, Mengqiu Yin, Constantino Fondevila, Mikhail Efanov, Zenichi Morise, Fabrizio Di Benedetto, Raffaele Brustia, Raffaele Dalla Valle, Ugo Boggi, David Geller, Andrea Belli, Riccardo Memeo, Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Roland S. Croner, Salvatore Gruttadauria, Jason Hawksworth, James O. Park, Fernando Rotellar, Gi-Hong Choi, Ricardo Robles-Campos, Xiaoying Wang, Robert P. Sutcliffe, Johann Pratschke, Chung-Ngai Tang, Charing C. N. Chong, Mathieu D’Hondt, Kazuteru Monden, Santiago Lopez-Ben, T. Peter Kingham, Alessandro Ferrero, Giuseppe Maria Ettorre, Daniel Cherqui, Xiao Liang, Rutger-Jan Swijnenburg, Go Wakabayashi, Roberto I. Troisi, Tan-To Cheung, Atsushi Sugioka, Motokazu Sugimoto, Tran Cong Duy Long, Yufu Peng, Yonggang Wei, Kuo-Hsin Chen, Olivier Soubrane, David Fuks, Rong Liu, Ho-Seong Han, Mohammad Abu Hilal, Bjørn Edwin, Brian K. P. Goh; International Robotic and Laparoscopic Liver Resection Study Group Investigators
Published online: 16 April 2026
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Applicability and effectiveness of a formula-based low-carb diet in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease—a single-arm interventional study
Philipp Hruska, Georg Semmler, Manuela Teufelhart, Harald Hofer, Robert Winker, Benedikt Mehl, Christian Rabitsch, Bernadette Barta, Peter Ferenci, Helmuth Haslacher, Michael Trauner, Thomas-Matthias Scherzer
Published online: 27 March 2026
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Evolution of outcomes after hepatectomy for hepatocellular carcinoma: an analysis of different periods
Chao Li, Ming-Da Wang, Yu-Ze Zhao, Wen-Long Zhai, Yong-Kang Diao, Ya-Hao Zhou, Jun Lu, Ting-Hao Chen, Bo Wu, Hong Wang, Wei-Min Gu, Yong-Yi Zeng, Zi-Jie Tang, Jie Li, Ying-Jian Liang, Hong-Wei Guo, Xin-Fei Xu, Li-Hui Gu, Jia-Hao Xu, Han Wu, Feng Shen, Eric C. H. Lai, Tian Yang; Eastern HepatoBiliary Alliance (EHBA) group
Published online: 26 February 2026
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Independent risk factors for clinically relevant postoperative pancreatic fistula after robotic pancreatoduodenectomy: the protective role of the modified Blumgart pancreatojejunostomy in a single surgeon retrospective cohort of 220 cases
Abdallah Iben-Khayat, Amaury Facque, Guillaume Beraud, Baudouin Thebault, Willy Serge Mfam, Jean-Emanuel Langdorph, Olivier Saint-Marc, Haythem Najah
Published online: 25 February 2026
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Prognostic Nutritional Index helps stratify outcomes of patients with intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma undergoing curative-intent resection
Takahide Ikeda, Jun Kawashima, Kota Sahara, Miho Akabane, François Cauchy, Federico Aucejo, Hugo P. Marques, Rita Lopes, Andreia Rodriguea, Tom Hugh, Feng Shen, Shishir K. Maithel, Bas Groot Koerkamp, Irinel Popescu, Minoru Kitago, Matthew J. Weiss, Guillaume Martel, Carlo Pulitano, Luca Aldrighetti, George Poultsides, Andrea Ruzzente, Todd W. Bauer, Ana Gleisner, Itaru Endo, Timothy M. Pawlik
Published online: 27 January 2026
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Associated factors identification and predictive model development for perioperative risk in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma receiving preoperative immunotherapy
Han Li, Peng-Fei Sun, Jun-Yu Long, Hong-Zhi Liu, Qi-Rui Zhang, Zhong-Chao Li, Yong-Yi Zeng, Xin-Yu Bi, Ya-Jin Chen, Zhong Chen, Zhi-Yong Huang, Ming Kuang, De-Yu Li, Xiang-Cheng Li, Xiao Liang, Fu-Bao Liu, Shi-Chun Lu, Tao Peng, Tian-Qiang Song, Hui-Chuan Sun, Kui Wang, Nan-Ya Wang, Tian-Fu Wen, Bao-Cai Xing, Li Xu, Tao Yin, Lei Zhang, Shui-Jun Zhang, Le-Du Zhou, Lei Zhao, Hai-Tao Zhao, Dong-Xu Wang, Tao Li; China Liver Cancer Study Group Young Investigators (CLEAP)
Published online: 21 January 2026
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Modified T category for early-staged intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma: inclusion of perineural invasion
Tao Wei, Matthew Weiss, Mujtaba Khalil, Irinel Popescu, Hugo P. Marques, Luca Aldrighetti, Shishir K. Maithel, Carlo Pulitano, Todd W. Bauer, Feng Shen, George A. Poultsides, Oliver Soubrane, Guillaume Martel, Bas Groot Koerkamp, Endo Itaru, Yi Lyu, Xu-Feng Zhang, Timothy M. Pawlik
Published online: 14 January 2026
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Monitoring with plasma apolipoprotein A2-isoforms can predict developing new-onset steatotic liver disease caused by pancreatic exocrine insufficiency following pancreatectomy
Akira Matsushita, Takashi Ono, Daigo Yoshimori, Akira Hamaguchi, Takahiro Murokawa, Junji Ueda, Tetsuya Shimizu, Yoichi Kawano, Masato Yoshioka, Mampei Kawashima, Yoshiharu Nakamura, Kengo Nagashima, Yuta Hasegawa, Tomonari Kiriyama, Keiko Takeuchi, Ayumi Kashiro, Kazufumi Honda, Hiroshi Yoshida
Published online: 08 January 2026
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Does neoadjuvant therapy reduce pancreatic fistula after pancreatoduodenectomy and distal pancreatectomy?—a systematic review and meta-analysis
Sandro Hügli, Victor Lopez-Lopez, Sarvar Abdurakhmonov, Jan Philipp Jonas, Elena Rangelova, Luana Genova, Giuseppe Malleo, Ryan K. Schmocker, Lea Timmermann, Thomas Malinka, Scott Helton, Ralph Fritsch, Fabian Kalt, Carol Ann Trachsel, Fabian Rössler, John Bryant, Russel Palm, Sarah E. Hoffe, Cristiano Guidetti, Fabrizio Di Benedetto, Daniel Pietrasz, Sameer H. Patel, Gregory C. Wilson, Syed A. Ahmad, Jin He, Changhoon Yoo, Julien Taieb, Henrik Petrowsky, Juan Lujan, Ricardo Robles-Campos, Ernesto Sparrelid, Jose Oberholzer, Dilmurodjon Eshmuminov
Published online: 19 December 2025
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Frailty assessed using the Liver Frailty IndexTM (LFI) is a risk factor for mortality in patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma treated with atezolizumab-bevacizumab
Philippe Sultanik, Claudia Campani, Sarah Mouri, Eleonore Spitzer, Mathilde Wagner, Lorraine Blaise, Marie Lequoy, Violaine Ozenne, Jean Charles Nault, Dominique Thabut, Nathalie Ganne-Carrié, Manon Allaire
Published online: 12 December 2025
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Influence of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease and metabolic risk factors on immunotherapy outcomes in hepatocellular carcinoma with chronic hepatitis B
Xin-Tong Wu, Jun-Zhe Yi, Yi-Min Zhang, Jiong-Liang Wang, Lei Li, Jiang-Zheng Zeng, Ke Ding, Yu-Wen Fan, Xin Liu, Zhi-Jian Zhu, Dao-Zu Yuan, Shang-Fu Ning, Jian-Zhong Zhang, Yong-Fei You, Jie Xu, Rong-Ping Guo, Min-Shan Chen, Ming Zhao, Ning Lyu
Published online: 11 December 2025
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Clinical outcomes of hepatectomy after partial response to immune checkpoint inhibitor-based combination therapy in patients with extrahepatic hepatocellular carcinoma metastasis
Ziyue Huang, Shanshan Wang, Cong Ning, Kai Liu, Mingjian Piao, Xiangqi Chen, Nan Zhang, Yang Tan, Shuofeng Li, Jiongyuan Li, Chengjie Li, Ziyu Xun, Junwei Zhang, Jin Bian, Xiao Liu, Chengpei Zhu, Lei Zhang, Xiaobo Yang, Shunda Du, Haitao Zhao
Published online: 10 December 2025
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Expert Consensus
Chinese expert consensus on conversion and perioperative therapy of primary liver cancer (2024 edition)
Zheng Wang, Huichuan Sun, Jian Zhou, Qing Xie, Xinyu Bi, Xiufeng Liu, Rong Liu, Ming Zhao, Xueli Bai, Yuan Ji, Li Xu, Weidong Jia, Shaochong Zeng, Gong Li, Wei Zhang, Shunli Shen, Shengxiang Rao, Guoming Shi, Lan Zhang, Xiaodong Zhu, Zhifeng Wu, Jiabei Wang, Haowen Tang, Dousheng Bai, Yajin Chen, Yongjun Chen, Chaoliu Dai, Fangming Gu, Jinhe Guo, Rongping Guo, Wenzhi Guo, Feng Han, Guohong Han, Chunyi Hao, Tao Huang, Xiaolun Huang, Yangqing Huang, Zhiyong Huang, Shunchang Jiao, Deyu Li, Tao Li, Xiangcheng Li, Guangming Li, Ping Liang, Xiao Liang, Jinguan Lin, Fubao Liu, Jiwei Liu, Jingfeng Liu, Zheng Lu, Weifu Lv, Yilei Mao, Zhiqiang Meng, Chuang Peng, Li Peng, Tao Peng, Ming Shi, Yinghong Shi, Tianqiang Song, Guang Tan, Yunqiang Tang, Kaishan Tao, Chidan Wan, Guangyi Wang, Kui Wang, Lu Wang, Maoqiang Wang, Shunxiang Wang, Wentao Wang, Tianfu Wen, Bangde Xiang, Baocai Xing, Jianming Xu, Jun Xu, Sheng Yan, Dinghua Yang, Jiayin Yang, Guowen Yin, Zhengping Yu, Yongyi Zeng, Jialin Zhang, Shuijun Zhang, Ti Zhang, Yamin Zhang, Yu Zhang, Yubao Zhang, Zhiwei Zhang, Aibin Zhang, Haitao Zhao, Hong Zhao, Ledu Zhou, Weiping Zhou, Zhenyu Zhu, Shukui Qin, Feng Shen, Xiujun Cai, Jianqiang Cai, Minshan Chen, Qiang Li, Lianxin Liu, Weilin Wang, Tingbo Liang, Bixiang Zhang, Shichun Lu, Shuqun Cheng, Zhenggang Ren, Hong Wu, Ming Kuang, Gaojun Teng, Kefeng Dou, Jiahong Dong, Xiaoping Chen, Xuehao Wang, Shusen Zheng, Jia Fan; Alliance of Liver Cancer Conversion Therapy, Liver Cancer Committee, China Anti-Cancer Association
Published online: 20 October 2025
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Clinical Practice Guideline
Diagnostic and management guidelines for biliary atresia in 2025
Liang Ge, Jixin Yang, Tengfei Li, Tianqi Zhu, Mark Davenport, Claus Petersen, Taylor Jacobs, Robin Petroze, Jianshe Wang, Kenneth Kak Yuen Wong, Zhibo Zhang, Wei Gao, Sainan Shu, Ping Yin, Shujian Zhang, Yajun Chen, Zhibao Lv, Shuguang Jin, Zhe Wen, Bin Wang, Weibing Tang, Jinfa Tou, Qiang Yin, Bin Xu, Linsheng Zhao, Wanfu Li, Xueqiang Yan, Shengqiao Zhao, Yuanmei Liu, Xiang Liu, Hua Huang, Shungen Huang, Pu Yu, Hongxia Ren, Yingchao Li, Huizhong Niu, Alimujiang Abudureyimu, Xin Li, Shaowen Liu, Rongjuan Sun, Heying Yang, Mureo Kasahara, George V. Mazariegos, Yanjun Shi, Masaki Nio, Thanh Liem Nguyen, Vincent Chi Hang Lui, Hiroo Uchida, Gail E. Besner, Ronald B. Hirschl, Jianghua Zhan, Jiexiong Feng
Published online: 04 September 2025
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Original Article
Does preoperative routine statin use reduce post-hepatectomy liver failure?—an international multicentre retrospective cohort study on 2,342 patients
Florian Primavesi, Nicholas Syn, Thomas Niederwieser, Kamil Pufal, Benedikt Rumpf, Ahmed Ghoneima, Eva Braunwarth, Benno Cardini, Mattias Mandorfer, Felix Julius Krendl, Florian Ponholzer, Sophie Schindler, Rupert Oberhuber, Manuel Maglione, Dietmar Öfner, Stefan Schneeberger, Keith Roberts, Magdy Attia, Patrick Starlinger, Bobby V. M. Dasari, Stefan Stättner
Published online: 26 August 2025
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Short- and long-term outcomes and cost-effectiveness of robotic-assisted versus laparoscopic liver resection for Barcelona Clinic Liver Cancer (BCLC) 0/A hepatocellular carcinoma: a multicenter propensity score-matched analysis
Feng Xia, Xulin Liu, Jing Yan, Zhancheng Qiu, Qiao Zhang, Zhenheng Wu, Zhiyuan Huang, Renjie Wei, Li Lin, Liping Liu, Shuangqin Han, Huaxuan Yin, Guobing Xia, Yunyan Wan, Jian Li, Xiafei Xia, Huapeng Sun, Shuai Wang, Jun Zheng, Hengyi Gao, Li Ren, Ali Mo, Junquan Fu, Lin Ye, Wei Zhou, Xiaoping Chen, Peng Zhu, Bixiang Zhang, Zhiwei Zhang, Qi Cheng
Published online: 07 July 2025
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Dynamic changes of pathophysiological characteristics during liver regeneration induced by associating liver partition and portal vein ligation for staged hepatectomy (ALPPS)
Jiayan Yan, Zhifeng Jiang, Shiyu Zhang, Runze Miao, Na Yao, Feiyu Chen, Dezhen Guo, Rongkui Luo, Senquan Zhang, Xinyu Wang, Junfeng Huang, Zheng Wang, Zhaoyou Tang, Jia Fan, Ao Huang, Yuan Ji, Hans J. Schlitt, Xinrong Yang, Jian Zhou
Published online: 17 April 2025
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Prediction of postoperative early recurrence and response to adjuvant transcatheter arterial chemoembolization in hepatocellular carcinoma with microvascular invasion after hepatectomy: a multicenter study
Tian-Chen Zhang, Zhen-Qi Li, Wei-Li Jia, Yu Cao, Ming-Gen Hu, Kang Wang, Shuai Xu, Tao Jiang, Chao Lin, Xiong Chen, Guang Tan, Nian-Xin Xia, Wen-Chao Zhao, Mao-Lin Yan, Yun-Fei Xu, Xiao-Dong Tan, Fan Zhang, Xiao Wang, Yu-Fu Tang, Qing-Qiang Ni, Yi-Lin Hu, Shu-Qun Cheng, Xiu-Ping Zhang, Rong Liu
Published online: 10 March 2025
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