Hepatology International

Papers
(The TQCC of Hepatology International is 11. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
The safety profile of endoscopic variceal ligation in patients with esophageal varices101
Clathrin light chain A facilitates small extracellular vesicle uptake to promote hepatocellular carcinoma progression84
HBV in pregnancy: time to consider tenofovir alafenamide (TAF)83
Midodrine plus propranolol versus propranolol alone in preventing first bleed in patients with cirrhosis and severe ascites: a randomized controlled trial73
Metabolically healthy obese and MAFLD: does weight status alone matter?66
Platelets in acute liver failure: an innocent bystander or instigator?65
Diagnosis of significant liver fibrosis in patients with chronic hepatitis B using a deep learning-based data integration network58
‘First week’ is the crucial period for deciding living donor liver transplantation in patients with acute-on-chronic liver failure56
N-terminal propeptide of type 3 collagen-based sequential algorithm can identify high-risk steatohepatitis and fibrosis in MAFLD56
Antibiotic prophylaxis in upper gastrointestinal bleeding with Child-Pugh A cirrhosis: need for objective infection markers and broader studies53
Exosome GLUT1 derived from hepatocyte identifies the risk of non-alcoholic steatohepatitis and fibrosis51
Development of nomograms to predict outcomes for large hepatocellular carcinoma after liver resection50
Effect of microbiota metabolites on the progression of chronic hepatitis B virus infection48
The promise of incretin-based pharmacotherapies for metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease48
Good outcomes of living donor liver transplant in primary sclerosing cholangitis: an experience from North India44
Predictive value of soluble PD-1 for HBsAg loss in HbeAg-negative patients with chronic hepatitis B: results from a prospective study42
Impact of CT-relevant skeletal muscle parameters on post-liver transplantation survival in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma41
Biomarkers of endothelial dysfunction in alcoholic hepatitis41
Liver stiffness can predict decompensation and need for beta-blockers in compensated cirrhosis: a step beyond Baveno-VI criteria38
Pure laparoscopic versus open left lateral hepatectomy in pediatric living donor liver transplantation: a review and meta-analysis38
Distinct on-treatment HCC risks associated with different decompensation events in HBV patients with cirrhosis37
Response to: “Is laparoscopic hepatectomy superior to laparotomic hepatectomy? The debate continues”36
Antioxidant, selenium and risk of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, more than causality34
Long-term morbidity and mortality in 2-year hepatoblastoma survivors treated with SIOPEL risk-adapted strategies34
Machine learning models in the prediction of 1-year mortality in patients with advanced hepatocellular cancer on immunotherapy: a proof-of-concept study33
Breaking bottlenecks: the future of hepatocellular carcinoma clinical trials and therapeutic targets33
APASL clinical practice guideline on hepatitis B reactivation related to the use of immunosuppressive therapy33
Efficacy and safety of durvalumab rechallenge in advanced hepatocellular carcinoma patients refractory to prior anti-PD-1 therapy33
APASL clinical practice guidance: the diagnosis and management of patients with primary biliary cholangitis31
Can living donor liver transplantation provide similar outcomes to deceased-donor liver transplantation for hepatocellular carcinoma? A systematic review and meta-analysis31
Prospects for treatment of esophageal varices considering the safety of endoscopic band ligation30
The impact of an increased Fibrosis-4 index and the severity of hepatic steatosis on mortality in individuals living with diabetes30
Identifying the early predictors of non-response to steroids in patients with flare of autoimmune hepatitis causing acute-on-chronic liver failure29
A novel radiomics–platelet nomogram for the prediction of gastroesophageal varices needing treatment in cirrhotic patients28
Liver-derived extracellular vesicles from patients with hepatitis B virus-related acute-on-chronic liver failure impair hepatic regeneration by inhibiting on FGFR2 signaling via miR-218-5p27
Reply to: “developing real‑world prognostic models for patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma: CRAFITY, mALF and beyond”27
Image-matching digital macro-slide—a novel pathological examination method for microvascular invasion detection in hepatocellular carcinoma27
Prevalence and impact on the outcome of myosteatosis in patients with cirrhosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis27
Metabolic dysfunction associated fatty liver disease in healthy weight individuals27
Health-related quality of life improves after entecavir treatment in patients with compensated HBV cirrhosis26
The overview of the deep learning integrated into the medical imaging of liver: a review26
Drug–drug interactions between direct-acting antivirals and co-medications: a territory-wide cohort study26
Lusutrombopag for thrombocytopenia in Chinese patients with chronic liver disease undergoing invasive procedures25
Letter to the editor: Treating portal vein thrombosis in cirrhosis: is anticoagulation therapy overestimated?25
An algorithm for simplified hepatitis C virus treatment with non-specialist care based on nation-wide data from Taiwan25
Targeting immuno-metabolism and anti-viral immune responses in chronic hepatitis B25
Correction to: Targeting ferroptosis in hepatocellular carcinoma24
Liver cancer and hepatic decompensation events in patients hospitalized with viral hepatitis in Spain24
Connection between HPS and ACLF: a solution of chaos?24
The relationship between CXCR6+CD8+T cells and clinicopathological parameters in patients with primary biliary cholangitis24
The dynamic patterns of metabolic-associated fatty liver disease and its severity and risk of cardiovascular disease23
Gut microbes associated with functional cure of chronic hepatitis B23
Role of splenic hepatic elastography ratio in differentiating non-cirrhotic portal fibrosis and chronic liver disease in children and adolescents23
Real-world efficacy and prognostic factors of lenvatinib plus PD-1 inhibitors in 378 unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma patients23
Fecal microbiota transplantation in alcoholic hepatitis: new treatment paradigm or a shot in the dark?22
Volumetric assessment and clinical predictors of cirrhosis in patients undergoing hepatectomy for hepatocellular carcinoma with presumed normal liver function22
Global prevalence, metabolic characteristics, and outcomes of lean-MAFLD: a systematic review and meta-analysis22
MAFLD, patient-centred care, and APASL22
Downregulated VISTA enhances Th17 differentiation and aggravates inflammation in patients with acute-on-chronic liver failure22
Real-world treatment outcome with protease inhibitor direct-acting antiviral in advanced hepatitis C cirrhosis: a REAL-C study22
Combined computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging improves diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma ≤ 3.0 cm22
Maternal and perinatal outcome in pregnancies complicated with portal hypertension: a systematic review and meta-analysis21
Diabetes is associated with poor short-term prognosis in patients with hepatitis B virus-related acute-on-chronic liver failure21
ChIP-seq analysis found IL21R, a target gene of GTF2I–the susceptibility gene for primary biliary cholangitis in Chinese Han21
The impact of artificial liver support system on intestinal microbiota and serum bile acid profiles in patients with acute-on-chronic liver failure: a prospective cohort study21
Anti-PD-L1 antibodies promote cellular proliferation by activating the PD-L1–AXL signal relay in liver cancer cells21
Correction to: Exosomal miR-200b-3p induce macrophage polarization by regulating transcriptional repressor ZEB1 in hepatocellular carcinoma21
Dynamic assessments of hepatic encephalopathy and ammonia levels predict mortality in acute-on-chronic liver failure21
Benefit of adjuvant radiotherapy for gallbladder cancer: a comparability-based meta-analysis21
The immune microenvironment features and response to immunotherapy in EBV-associated lymphoepithelioma-like cholangiocarcinoma21
Increased risk of cancer in patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis20
A network meta-analysis of direct oral anticoagulants for portal vein thrombosis in cirrhosis20
Liver decompensation: the yard stick that measures indications and adverse effects of human albumin infusion20
Comment on: Low-risk individuals with primary biliary cholangitis and significant liver stiffness: prognosis and treatment20
Diagnostic yield and novel candidate genes by next generation sequencing in 166 children with intrahepatic cholestasis20
Sleep patterns, genetic susceptibility, and risk of cirrhosis among individuals with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease20
AARC score and urine NGAL predict terlipressin non-response and mortality in patients with acute-on-chronic liver failure20
Distinct course of portal hypertension in patients with cirrhosis with gastric variceal bleeding as their first decompensation: a propensity score-matched study20
The effect of transition timing of regorafenib on treatment outcomes in unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma: a real-world study20
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease association with structural heart, systolic and diastolic dysfunction: a meta-analysis19
Dual-etiology MAFLD: the interactions between viral hepatitis B, viral hepatitis C, alcohol, and MAFLD19
Skeletal muscle alterations indicate poor prognosis in cirrhotic patients: a multicenter cohort study in China19
Gender differences in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in obese children and adolescents: a large cross-sectional study19
Efficacy of entecavir, tenofovir disoproxil fumarate, and tenofovir alafenamide in treatment-naive hepatitis B patients19
Liver and cardiovascular outcomes in lean non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis of about 1 million individuals19
The association between visceral adipocyte hypertrophy and NAFLD in subjects with different degrees of adiposity19
Distinctly altered lipid components in hepatocellular carcinoma relate to impaired T cell-dependent antitumor immunity19
Tadalafil improves erectile dysfunction and quality of life in men with cirrhosis: a randomized double blind placebo controlled trial19
A somatic mutation-derived LncRNA signatures of genomic instability predicts the prognosis and tumor microenvironment immune characters in hepatocellular carcinoma18
Low skeletal muscle mass is associated with more severe histological features of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in male18
Liver fat and a perturbed metabolic milieu: a consilience of factors driving liver cancer development18
Deep learning for prediction of hepatocellular carcinoma recurrence after resection or liver transplantation: a discovery and validation study18
Modified and alternative Baveno VI criteria based on age for ruling out high-risk varices in patients with compensated cirrhosis17
Drug-induced liver injury from herbal and dietary supplements: a problem in the East and West alike17
Reduction of natural killer cells is associated with poor outcomes in patients with hepatitis B virus-related acute-on-chronic liver failure17
Diet-derived antioxidants and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: a Mendelian randomization study17
Interferon therapy improves survival in patients with hepatitis B virus-related hepatocellular carcinoma after curative surgery: a meta-analysis17
Genetic predisposition of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease: a population-based genome-wide association study17
Impact of metabolic factors on risk of cardiovascular disease in nondiabetic metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease17
The effectiveness of combination therapy with interferon and nucleoside analogs in pediatric patients with chronic hepatitis B: a systematic review and meta-analysis17
Explainable attention-enhanced heuristic paradigm for multi-view prognostic risk score development in hepatocellular carcinoma17
Prediction of overt hepatic encephalopathy after transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt treatment: a cohort study16
Diversity of the nucleic acid forms of circulating HBV in chronically infected patients and its impact on viral cycle16
Integrated genomic analyses of hepatocellular carcinoma16
CBX1 is involved in hepatocellular carcinoma progression and resistance to sorafenib and lenvatinib via IGF-1R/AKT/SNAIL signaling pathway16
Targeted inhibition of FGF19/FGFR cascade improves antitumor immunity and response rate in hepatocellular carcinoma15
Consensus on the secondary prevention of primary liver cancer15
Correction to: Linking the gut and liver: crosstalk between regulatory T cells and mucosa-associated invariant T cells15
PIVKA-II combined with alpha-fetoprotein for the diagnostic value of hepatic tumors in children: a multicenter, prospective observational study15
Metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease and heavy alcohol consumption increase mortality:A nationwide study15
Oxidative stress triggers hyperdynamic circulation via central neural activation in portal hypertensive rats15
Diagnosis and management of pediatric acute liver failure: consensus recommendations of the Indian Society of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition (ISPGHAN)15
PIRO-CIC model can predict mortality and futility of care in critically ill cirrhosis patients in the intensive care unit14
Reconsiderations for the liver donation from a living donor: addressing hepatic steatosis with weight loss preconditioning14
The clinical implications and molecular features of intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma with perineural invasion14
Longitudinal progression of clinical variables associated with graded liver injury in COVID-19 patients14
Lifestyle intervention for metabolic dysfunction-associated fatty liver disease: a 24-h integrated behavior perspective14
Messenger RNA electroporated hepatitis B virus (HBV) antigen-specific T cell receptor (TCR) redirected T cell therapy is well-tolerated in patients with recurrent HBV-related hepatocellular carcinoma 14
Global burden of cirrhosis and liver cancer due to alcohol: the past, present, and the future13
New progress towards elimination of mother-to-child transmission of hepatitis B virus in China13
Hepatitis B virus-related intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma originates from hepatocytes13
Predictive power of portal pressure gradient remeasured shortly after transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt13
Predictive models for functional cure in patients with CHB receiving PEG-IFN therapy based on HBsAg quantification through meta-analysis13
Acute variceal bleeding portends poor outcomes in patients with acute-on-chronic liver failure: a propensity score matched study from the APASL ACLF Research Consortium (AARC)12
Effectiveness of entecavir vs tenofovir disoproxil fumarate for functional cure of chronic hepatitis B in an international cohort12
Low platelets: a new and simple prognostic marker for patients with hepatitis E virus-related acute liver failure12
Editorial: The safety profile of endoscopic variceal ligation in patients with esophageal varices. Authors’ reply12
Gut-microbiome composition and function in progression of alcohol-associated liver disease: going beyond western experiences12
Global, regional, and national burdens of cirrhosis in children and adolescents aged under 19 years from 1990 to 201912
miR-98-5p as a novel biomarker suppress liver fibrosis by targeting TGFβ receptor 112
Nomograms should be noted12
Characteristics of microbiome-derived metabolomics according to the progression of alcoholic liver disease12
APASL guidance on stopping nucleos(t)ide analogues in chronic hepatitis B patients12
Clinical practice guidelines on hemochromatosis: Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver12
Influence of shunt occlusion on liver volume and functions in hyperammonemic cirrhosis patients having large porto-systemic shunts: a randomized control trial12
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease frequency and associated factors at admission of acute stroke11
Correction to: Complementary role of peripheral and central autonomic nervous system on insulin-like growth factor-1 activation to prevent fatty liver disease11
Prognosis and treatment pattern of advanced hepatocellular carcinoma after failure of first-line atezolizumab and bevacizumab treatment11
Comparison of the prognostic models for mortality in idiosyncratic drug-induced liver injury11
The upregulation of Annexin A2 by TLR4 pathway facilitates lipid accumulation and liver injury via blocking AMPK/mTOR-mediated autophagy flux during the development of non-alcoholic fatty liver diseas11
Determination of Turkish norms of psychometric tests for diagnosing minimal hepatic encephalopathy and proposal of a high sensitive screening test battery11
Synthetic miR-26a mimics delivered by tumor exosomes repress hepatocellular carcinoma through downregulating lymphoid enhancer factor 111
Current understanding and future perspectives on the impact of changing NAFLD to MAFLD on global epidemiology and clinical outcomes11
Correction to: Infuence of shunt occlusion on liver volume and functions in hyperammonemic cirrhosis patients having large porto-systemic shunts: a randomized control trial11
Development of an intervention system for linkage-to-care and follow-up for hepatitis B and C virus carriers11
Conventional and artificial intelligence-based imaging for biomarker discovery in chronic liver disease11
Carbohydrate-deficient transferrin is a sensitive marker of alcohol consumption in fatty liver disease11
Patients with polyclonal hepatocellular carcinoma are at a high risk of early recurrence and have a poor recurrence-free survival period11
Liver fibrosis is associated with impaired bone mineralization and microstructure in obese individuals with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease11
Effects of antiviral therapy and drug withdrawal on postpartum hepatitis in pregnant women with chronic HBV infection11
Sequential HBV treatment with tenofovir alafenamide for patients with chronic hepatitis B: week 96 results from a real-world, multicenter cohort study11
Methylated SEPT9 assay-based liquid biopsy as a biomarker in molecular targeted agent-treated hepatocellular carcinoma11
Comments on: Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and the liver: a comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis11
How non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and cirrhosis affect the heart11
Reply to: The best predictive model for post-SVR HCC: can it be universal?11
Expanding treatment indications in chronic hepatitis B: Should we treat all patients?11
Exosomal miR-200b-3p induce macrophage polarization by regulating transcriptional repressor ZEB1 in hepatocellular carcinoma11
Presence of sarcopenia identifies a special group of lean NAFLD in middle-aged and older people11
Developing real-world prognostic models for patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma: CRAFITY, mALF and beyond11
Whole-exome sequencing reveals the metastatic potential of hepatocellular carcinoma from the perspective of tumor and circulating tumor DNA11
Autophagy and extracellular vesicles in the liver endothelium: friends or foes?11
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