Hepatology Communications

Papers
(The median citation count of Hepatology Communications is 4. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
A genetic variant in the CD40 gene is related to HBV infection in the Chinese Han population116
Pain in chronic liver disease compared to other chronic conditions: Results from a contemporary nationally representative cohort study111
Issue Information107
Erratum: Pervasive role of pruritus in impaired quality of life in patients with primary biliary cholangitis: Data from the GLIMMER study104
Reduced short-term survival following liver transplant in patients with acute-on-chronic liver failure: Reevaluating OPTN data79
Disproportionate increases in alcohol-associated hepatitis incidence in women and individuals of low socioeconomic status: A population-based study using the Rochester epidemiology project database68
Medical malpractice claims in Hepatology: Rates, Reasons, and Results67
Clinical decision support automates care gap detection among primary care patients with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease65
Ranking of transarterial and targeted therapies for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma in the era of immuno‐oncology: A network meta‐analysis of randomized sorafenib‐controlled trials63
Immunologic landscape of human hepatic hemangiomas and epithelioid hemangioendotheliomas63
Targeting hepatocyte-specific SLC2A8 blocks hepatic steatosis and dissociates TCA cycle flux inhibition from glutamine anaplerosis62
Visualizing in situ viral replication across the natural history of chronic HBV infection62
Resolution of hepatic fibrosis after ZFN-mediated gene editing in the PiZ mouse model of human α1-antitrypsin deficiency60
HBV DNA polymerase regulates tumor cell glycogen to enhance the malignancy of HCC cells58
Pharmacist‐led educational interventions involving the “hidden” patient in cirrhosis—Caregivers55
Clinical and genetic definition of serum bilirubin levels for the diagnosis of Gilbert syndrome and hypobilirubinemia51
Development and evaluation of a virtual reality driving test for patients with cirrhosis51
Patient‐oriented medication education intervention has long‐term benefits for people with decompensated cirrhosis51
Association between widespread pain and associated symptoms in patients with cirrhosis51
Infections in decompensated cirrhosis: Pathophysiology, management, and research agenda50
Zinc fingers and homeoboxes 2 is required for diethylnitrosamine‐induced liver tumor formation in C57BL/6 mice49
Deletion of sphingosine 1-phosphate receptor 1 in myeloid cells reduces hepatic inflammatory macrophages and attenuates MASH49
Aramchol attenuates fibrosis in mouse models of biliary fibrosis and blocks the TGFβ-induced fibroinflammatory mediators in cholangiocytes48
Increasing nonalcoholic fatty liver disease–related mortality rates in the United States from 1999 to 202245
Copper deficiency is an independent risk factor for mortality in patients with advanced liver disease44
A pilot study of vidofludimus calcium for treatment of primary sclerosing cholangitis44
A prospective investigation of serum bile acids with risk of liver cancer, fatal liver disease, and biliary tract cancer44
Complementary and alternative medicines and liver disease43
The truth of the matter: will immune-tolerant chronic hepatitis B patients benefit from antiviral treatment?41
Depression and anxiety management in cirrhosis40
Mesenchymal stem/stromal cells armored by FGF21 ameliorate alcohol-induced liver injury through modulating polarization of macrophages39
Community-level social vulnerability and individual socioeconomic status on liver transplant referral outcome38
Noninvasive pathway for stratifying fibrosis in suspected metabolic dysfunction and alcohol-associated liver disease (MetALD)38
Baseline serum HBV RNA is associated with the risk of hepatitis flare after stopping nucleoside analog therapy in HBeAg-negative participants38
Granulomatous liver diseases37
Co‐regulation of hepatic steatosis by ferritinophagy and unsaturated fatty acid supply36
Management of alcohol withdrawal syndrome in patients with alcohol-associated liver disease36
Transcriptomic profiling of a multiethnic pediatric NAFLD cohort reveals genes and pathways associated with disease35
Atorvastatin for patients with cirrhosis. A randomized, placebo-controlled trial35
Naltrexone for alcohol use disorder: Hepatic safety in patients with and without liver disease35
Letter to the Editor: Rifamycin SV MMX was superior to placebo, but was the comparison appropriate?34
High prevalence of liver fibrosis among general population: a Romanian population-based study: Erratum34
HBV core protein enhances WDR46 stabilization to upregulate NUSAP1 and promote HCC progression34
SARS-CoV-2 viral liver aggregates and scarce parenchymal infection implicate systemic disease as a driver of abnormal liver function33
Hepatocyte-derived liver progenitor-like cells attenuate liver cirrhosis via induction of apoptosis in hepatic stellate cells33
Hepatocellular carcinoma cells downregulate NADH:Ubiquinone Oxidoreductase Subunit B3 to maintain reactive oxygen species homeostasis33
Precipitous changes in nomenclature and definitions—NAFLD becomes SLD: Implications for and expectations of AASLD journals33
Reply to the Letter to the editor “Ipragliflozin improves the hepatic outcomes of patients with diabetes with NAFLD”33
Increased MASH-associated liver cancer in younger demographics32
GATA4 downregulation enhances CCL20-mediated immunosuppression in hepatocellular carcinoma32
CD63-high macrophage-derived exosomal miR-6876-5p promotes hepatocellular carcinoma stemness via PTEN/Akt-mediated EMT pathway31
Loss of heat shock factor 1 promotes hepatic stellate cell activation and drives liver fibrosis31
EBV enhances immunotherapy sensitivity in intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma through cGAS-STING pathway activation31
Human VH-based chimeric antigen receptor T cells targeting glypican 3 eliminate tumors in preclinical models of HCC31
Fatty acid synthesis is indispensable for Kupffer cells to eliminate bacteria in ALD progression31
Progression to cirrhosis is similar among all ages in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, but liver-related events increase with age30
Serologic extracellular matrix remodeling markers are related to fibrosis stage and prognosis in a phase 2b trial of simtuzumab in patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis30
Synonymous mutation in adenosine triphosphatase copper‐transporting beta causes enhanced exon skipping in Wilson disease30
Hepatocyte TGF‐β Signaling Inhibiting WAT Browning to Promote NAFLD and Obesity Is Associated With Let‐7b‐5p30
Evolutional transition of HBV genome during the persistent infection determined by single-molecule real-time sequencing30
Transcriptomic Analysis Reveals the Messenger RNAs Responsible for the Progression of Alcoholic Cirrhosis29
Hepatitis B in Senegal: A Successful Infant Vaccination Program but Urgent Need to Scale Up Screening and Treatment (ANRS 12356 AmBASS survey)28
A qualitative patient interview study to understand the experience of patients with nonalcoholic steatohepatitis28
Immunoglobulin M: A Neglected Serum Biomarker in Treatment‐Naive Primary Biliary Cholangitis With Normal Alkaline Phosphatase28
Behavioral weight-loss interventions for patients with NAFLD: A systematic scoping review28
CD36 in liver diseases28
A need for confirmatory testing of isolated HBcAb-positive results in screening programs27
Intestinal virome in patients with alcohol use disorder and after abstinence27
Sirtuin3 promotes the degradation of hepatic Z alpha-1 antitrypsin through lipophagy27
Alpha-fetoprotein: Past, present, and future26
Cellular communication networks in fibrosis: Insights from the MASLD pig model26
Design, implementation, and impact of a cirrhosis-specific remote patient monitoring program26
A nationwide study of primary biliary cholangitis prevalence, geographic distribution, and health care providers26
Lipid droplet deposition in the regenerating liver: A promoter, inhibitor, or bystander?26
Gut microbiota and metabolic biomarkers in metabolic dysfunction–associated steatotic liver disease26
Erratum: Clinical spectrum and genetic causes of mitochondrial hepatopathy phenotype in children25
Evaluation of the definition of hyperdynamic circulation in patients with cirrhosis and ascites25
Steroid responsiveness in alcohol-associated hepatitis is linked to glucocorticoid metabolism, mitochondrial repair, and heat shock proteins25
Clinical predictors and noninvasive imaging in Fontan-associated liver disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis25
Increasing national trend of direct-acting antiviral discontinuation among people treated for HCV 2016–202125
iPSC-based hepatic organoids reveal a heterozygous MYO5B variant as driver of intrahepatic cholestasis25
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Patient-reported symptoms and interest in symptom monitoring in HCC treated with locoregional therapies: A qualitative study25
Long-term weight changes are associated with initial weight changes after nonalcoholic fatty liver disease diagnosis24
Variants in mitochondrial amidoxime reducing component 1 and hydroxysteroid 17‐beta dehydrogenase 13 reduce severity of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in children and suppress fibrotic pathways thro24
Falls and malnutrition are associated with in-hospital mortality in patients with cirrhosis24
The global prevalence and impact of steatotic liver disease and viral infections: A systematic review and meta-analysis24
Meaningful differences in patient-reported outcome measurement scores in liver disease24
Association of preoperative IL-6 levels with overt HE in patients with cirrhosis after TIPS24
Dexamethasone mitigates remdesivir-induced liver toxicity in human primary hepatocytes and COVID-19 patients23
A randomized trial of mailed outreach with behavioral economic interventions to improve liver cancer surveillance23
The impact of multidrug-resistant microorganisms on critically ill patients with cirrhosis in the intensive care unit: a cohort study23
A plasma peptidomic signature reveals extracellular matrix remodeling and predicts prognosis in alcohol-associated hepatitis23
Long-term management and treatment of acute intermittent porphyria with recurring attacks using pharmacological prophylaxis23
Toll-like receptor 2 activation in monocytes contributes to systemic inflammation and alcohol-associated liver disease in humans23
Repurposing of the analgesic Neurotropin for MASLD/MASH treatment23
CD4+ T-cell subsets in autoimmune hepatitis: A review23
Screening and management of portal hypertension and varices in cirrhosis: Expert perspectives22
Predicting NAFLD prevalence in the United States using National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2017–2018 transient elastography data and application of machine learning22
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Home exercise, branched-chain amino acids, and probiotics improve frailty in cirrhosis: A randomized clinical trial22
Diet composition impacts the natural history of steatotic liver disease22
Erratum: Use and outcome of transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt in hospitalized patients Germany:Nationwide study (2007-2018)22
Global and regional long‐term survival following resection for HCC in the recent decade: A meta‐analysis of 110 studies22
Erratum: Binge drinking at time of bariatric surgery is associated with liver disease, suicides, and increases long-term mortality22
A strategy for varices screening based on acoustic radiation force impulse combined with platelet (CHESS2001): An alternative of Baveno VI criteria: Erratum22
Reply: Antibiotic prophylaxis in palliative patients with cirrhosis: Stewardship or gatekeeping?21
Inhibition of CBP/β‐catenin signaling ameliorated fibrosis in cholestatic liver disease21
Extracellular matrix protein 1 binds to connective tissue growth factor against liver fibrosis and ductular reaction21
Reply: Hepatopulmonary syndrome associated with common variable immunodeficiency: Is it reasonable to investigate?21
Amphisome plays a role in HBV production and release through the endosomal and autophagic pathways21
Low awareness of MASLD among U.S. adults: Trends from NHANES 2017–202321
HCC surveillance in hepatitis C: A longitudinal algorithm improves alpha-fetoprotein screening21
Functional involvement of endothelial lipase in hepatitis B virus infection21
Growth hormone deficiency and NAFLD: An overlooked and underrecognized link21
Leukemia inhibitory factor promotes human cholangiopathies, and its inhibition improves cholestasis in Abcb4 −/− mice21
Response to Tinospora cordifolia (Giloy)‐induced liver injury during the COVID‐19 pandemic—Multicenter nationwide study from India20
Aspirin is associated with a reduced incidence of liver disease in men20
A healthy lifestyle is prospectively associated with lower onset of metabolic dysfunction–associated steatotic liver disease20
Impact of social determinants of health on hepatocellular carcinoma surveillance, treatment, and health care costs20
Reproducibility of vibration-controlled transient elastography, controlled attenuation parameter, and blood tests in cirrhosis20
Efficacy and safety of fenofibrate addition therapy in patients with cirrhotic primary biliary cholangitis with incomplete response to ursodeoxycholic acid20
An overview of the cholesterol metabolism and its proinflammatory role in the development of MASLD19
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Pragmatic strategies to address health disparities along the continuum of care in chronic liver disease19
Risk of HCC decreases in HBV-related patients with cirrhosis acquired recompensation: A retrospective study based on Baveno VII criteria19
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Body fat composition determines outcomes before and after liver transplantation in patients with cirrhosis19
Acute on chronic liver failure: prognostic models and artificial intelligence applications19
Gut microbial metabolites in MASLD: Implications of mitochondrial dysfunction in the pathogenesis and treatment19
Tetrahydroxylated bile acids improve cholestatic liver and bile duct injury in the Mdr2−/− mouse model of sclerosing cholangitis via immunomodulatory effects19
NME2 modulates HCC progression through 4EBP1 phosphorylation and autophagy regulation independent of mTOR18
Erratum: BTLA deficiency promotes HSC activation and protects against hepatic ischemia-reperfusion injury18
Novel metabolic phenotypes for extrahepatic complication of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: Erratum18
Blood bacterial DNA signatures in a prospective cohort of patients with MASLD cirrhosis18
Mouse model of NASH that replicates key features of the human disease and progresses to fibrosis stage 318
Hepcidin inhibits hepatocyte apoptosis through the PERK pathway in acute liver injury and fibrosis18
Erratum: Gut microbiota and metabolic biomarkers in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD)18
Collagen in hepatocellular carcinoma: A novel biomarker and therapeutic target17
Severe Alcohol‐Associated Hepatitis Is Associated With Worse Survival in Critically Ill Patients With Acute on Chronic Liver Failure17
METTL3 inhibits liver fibrosis via RBX1 stability and TXNIP-mediated ferroptosis17
Heterogeneity of treatment response to beta-blockers in the treatment of portal hypertension: A systematic review17
Epigenetic deregulation of MLF1 drives intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma progression through EGFR/AKT and Wnt/β-catenin signaling17
A novel experimental model of MetALD in male mice recapitulates key features of severe alcohol-associated hepatitis17
Gut microbiota-produced vitamin B6 mitigates alcohol-associated liver disease by attenuating hepatic oxidative stress damage17
Hepatocyte dedifferentiation in 2D culture reveals extensive transcriptomic and proteomic rewiring17
miR-34a regulates macrophage-associated inflammation and angiogenesis in alcohol-induced liver injury17
Genetic variants associated with immune-mediated liver injury from checkpoint inhibitors16
Post-translational modifications drive the effects of HMGB1 in alcohol-associated liver disease16
Severe acute hepatitis of unknown etiology in a large cohort of children16
Population screening for cirrhosis16
Adipose tissue insulin resistance exacerbates liver inflammation and fibrosis in a diet-induced NASH model16
The burden of extrahepatic organ failures in European patients with cirrhosis16
EGFR activation in cholangiocytes promotes extrahepatic bile duct regeneration after injury16
Clinical utility of two-step hepatitis E virus IgM antibody testing in a low-prevalence setting: A 10-year retrospective multicenter study16
Clinical and genetic risk factors for progressive fibrosis in metabolic dysfunction–associated steatotic liver disease16
Hepatitis C is associated with more adverse pregnancy outcomes than hepatitis B: A 7‐year national inpatient sample study16
Zinc supplementation to improve prognosis in patients with compensated advanced chronic liver disease: a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial16
Validating new coding algorithms to improve identification of alcohol-associated and nonalcohol-associated cirrhosis hospitalizations in administrative databases16
Interleukin-18 binding protein protects against metabolic steatohepatitis16
The most impactful findings on liver cancer in 202316
Sodium cholate ameliorates nonalcoholic steatohepatitis by activation of FXR signaling16
Outcomes of patients with acute liver failure not listed for liver transplantation: A cohort analysis15
Common variable immunodeficiency disorder-related liver disease is common and results in portal hypertension and an increased risk of death15
Deficiency of Ugcg in LSECs alleviates high-fat diet-induced MASLD15
Elevated FBXL18 promotes RPS15A ubiquitination and SMAD3 activation to drive HCC15
Activin B promotes the initiation and progression of liver fibrosis15
Dysregulated meta-organismal metabolism of aromatic amino acids in alcohol-associated liver disease15
ARID1A deficiency promotes malignant proliferation of hepatocellular carcinoma by activating HDAC7/ENO1 signaling pathway15
Atorvastatin favorably modulates a clinical hepatocellular carcinoma risk gene signature15
Low vitamin A levels are associated with liver-related mortality: a nationally representative cohort study15
NUAK1 promotes metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis progression by activating Caspase 6–driven pyroptosis and inflammation15
The impact of aging on liver health and the development of liver diseases15
Lysophosphatidic acid receptor 1 antagonist (EPGN2154) causes regression of NASH in preclinical NASH models15
Inhibition of nonhomologous end joining‐mediated DNA repair enhances anti‐HBV CRISPR therapy15
Prevalence of at-risk NASH and its association with metabolic syndrome in US adults with NAFLD, 2017–201815
Neighborhood disparities and metabolic dysfunction–associated steatotic liver disease in children with overweight or obesity15
Aerobic exercise interventions lead to MASH resolution in clinical trials: Pooled analysis using the MASH resolution index14
Statin use and risk of progression to liver cirrhosis in chronic hepatitis B independent of conventional risk factors: A nationwide study14
Long-term HBV infection of engineered cultures of induced pluripotent stem cell-derived hepatocytes14
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Neurogastroenterology and motility disorders in patients with cirrhosis14
Immune‐mediated liver injury following COVID‐19 vaccination: A systematic review14
Effect of hepatic steatosis and associated metabolic comorbidities on health‐related quality of life in people living with HIV14
Bile acid conjugation deficiency causes hypercholanemia, hyperphagia, islet dysfunction, and gut dysbiosis in mice14
A versatile method to profile hepatitis B virus DNA integration14
Incidence, clinical characteristics, and risk factors associated with recurrent alcohol-associated hepatitis14
Monitoring quality of care in hepatocellular carcinoma: A modified Delphi consensus14
Predicting hepatic encephalopathy in patients with cirrhosis: A UK population–based study and validation of risk scores14
Evidence-based criteria for identifying at-risk individuals requiring liver disease screening14
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An optimized peritonitis-induced ACLF model that reproduces the full spectrum of extrahepatic organ failures in mice14
Ablation of high‐mobility group box‐1 in the liver reduces hepatocellular carcinoma but causes hyperbilirubinemia in Hippo signaling‐deficient mice13
Profiling of cell‐free DNA methylation and histone signatures in pediatric NAFLD: A pilot study13
Serum levels of total bile acids are associated with an increased risk of HCC in patients with cirrhosis13
Fibrosis‐4 Index as an Independent Predictor of Mortality and Liver‐Related Outcomes in NAFLD13
Digital therapeutics lead to clinically significant body weight loss in patients with metabolic dysfunction–associated steatotic liver disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis13
Major Shifts in Outpatient Cirrhosis Care Delivery Attributable to the COVID‐19 Pandemic: A National Cohort Study13
HBV-specific T-cell function is nonenhanced by tenofovir-induced decline in HBV viremia or HBsAg titer in chronic hepatitis B13
Liver histology is associated with long-term clinical outcomes in patients with metabolic dysfunction–associated steatohepatitis13
NAFLD polygenic risk score and risk of hepatocellular carcinoma in an East Asian population13
Disparities in presentation and management of chronic hepatitis B among Hispanics in a diverse safety net system13
Portal cavernoma cholangiopathy: A systematic review of current understanding, clinical significance, and management13
Biliary microbial patterns in primary sclerosing cholangitis are linked to poorer transplant-free survival13
Microbially conjugated bile salts found in human bile activate the bile salt receptors TGR5 and FXR13
The incidence and predictors of false-negative pancreatobiliary fluorescence in situ hybridization (PB-FISH) in biliary strictures: A prospective study13
Heterologous adenovirus‐vector/messenger RNA regimen is associated with improved severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 humoral response in liver transplant recipients13
Modulating intestinal neuroimmune VIPergic signaling attenuates the reduction in ILC3-derived IL-22 and hepatic steatosis in MASLD13
The ferroptosis mediator ACSL4 fails to prevent disease progression in mouse models of MASLD13
Hepatotoxicity of immune checkpoint inhibitors: What is Currently Known13
Transversal psoas muscle thickness measurement is associated with response and survival in patients with HCC undergoing immunotherapy13
Direct Conversion of Human Endothelial Cells Into Liver Cancer‐Forming Cells Using Nonintegrative Episomal Vectors13
Impact of the new definition of metabolic dysfunction–associated fatty liver disease on detection of significant liver fibrosis in US adolescents13
Long-term outcomes after ICU admission in critically ill patients with liver cirrhosis: An Australian state-wide cohort study13
Erratum: Community-level social vulnerability and individual socioeconomic status on liver transplant referral outcome13
Learn, adapt, act: A pragmatic approach for intervening on disparities in hepatocellular carcinoma outcomes13
Assessing the risk of surgery in patients with cirrhosis13
Erratum: Live-smart: A sequential, multiple assignment randomized trial to reduce falls in cirrhosis12
Financial burden in a US cohort of patients with HCC12
Cytomegalovirus infection in patients with biliary atresia—further questions and possible solutions12
Spermidine enhances the efficacy of adjuvant in HBV vaccination in mice12
Problematic alcohol use and its impact on liver disease quality of life in a multicenter study of patients with cirrhosis12
Deletion of adipocyte prohibitin 1 exacerbates high‐fat diet‐induced steatosis but not liver inflammation and fibrosis12
Issue Information12
Maralixibat for the treatment of PFIC: Long‐term, IBAT inhibition in an open‐label, Phase 2 study12
HMOX1+ macrophages determine immunosuppressive microenvironment and immunotherapy efficacy in hepatocellular carcinoma12
GALAD outperforms aMAP and ALBI for predicting HCC in patients with compensated advanced chronic liver disease: A 12-year prospective study12
Role of mitogens in normal and pathological liver regeneration12
Loss of phospholipase Cγ1 suppresses hepatocellular carcinogenesis through blockade of STAT3‐mediated cancer development12
Utility of pathologist panels for achieving consensus in NASH histologic scoring in clinical trials: Data from a phase 3 study12
Whole-exome sequencing reveals novel cancer genes and actionable targets in biliary tract cancers in primary sclerosing cholangitis12
Sarcopenia HIBA score predicts sarcopenia and mortality in patients on the liver transplant waiting list12
Ethanol disrupts hepatocellular lipophagy by altering Rab5-centric LD-lysosome trafficking12
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HCV direct acting antiviral treatment leads to highly durable rates of ALT and AST lower than 30/19 criteria and improved APRI and FIB‐4 scores12
Baveno VII for HCC: Are we there yet?12
Farnesoid X receptor alpha ligands inhibit HDV in vitro replication and virion infectivity12
LKB1 acts as a critical brake for the glucagon‐mediated fasting response12
Maternal Western diet is associated with distinct preclinical pediatric NAFLD phenotypes in juvenile nonhuman primate offspring12
Cellular communication network factor 1‐stimulated liver macrophage efferocytosis drives hepatic stellate cell activation and liver fibrosis12
Sarcopenia is associated with osteopenia and impaired quality of life in children with genetic intrahepatic cholestatic liver disease12
Missense variants in the TRPM7 α-kinase domain are associated with recurrent pediatric acute liver failure11
Year in review: Liver cancer research in 2022: tumor microenvironment takes the central stage: Erratum11
BTLA deficiency promotes HSC activation and protects against hepatic ischemia-reperfusion injury11
Reply: Critical commentary on the study comparing TIPS, tunneled peritoneal catheter, and ascites pump in refractory ascites11
Erratum: Regulation of immune responses in primary biliary cholangitis: A transcriptomic analysis of peripheral immune cells11
ICIs in hepatocellular carcinoma: A comprehensive analysis of path forward for multimodal treatment strategies11
Reply—Examining pregnancy outcomes in alcohol-associated hepatitis: A call for further research11
Serum Mac‐2 binding protein level predicts the development of liver‐related events and colorectal cancer in patients with NAFLD11
Health economic outcomes of a minimal monitoring approach to providing HCV therapy11
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