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Schematic design of machine perfusion.

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World Journal of Hepatology (WJH, World J Hepatol) is a high-quality, online, open-access, single-blind peer-reviewed journal published by the Baishideng Publishing Group. WJH accepts both solicited and unsolicited manuscripts. Articles published in WJH are high-quality, basic and clinical, influential research articles by established academic authors as well as new researchers. The paramount objective of WJH is to showcase and promote distinguished research in the field of hepatology, to help advance development of this field. The types of articles published in WJH include Editorial, Opinion Review, Frontier, Review, Minireview, Basic Study, Clinical Research, Systematic Review, Meta-analysis, Evidence-based Medicine, Field of Vision, Clinical Guidelines, Letter to the Editor, and Case Report. Submit here >>

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Editors-in-Chief

Ke-Qin Hu, FAASLD, MD, Director, Professor, (E-mail: kqhu@uci.edu) Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of California, Irvine Medical Center, Orange, CA 92868, United States
Koo Jeong Kang, MD, PhD, Professor, (Email: kjkang@dsmc.or.kr) Division of Hepatobiliary Pancreatic Surgery, Department of surgery, Keimyung University Dong-San Medical Center, Daegu 41931, South Korea
Nikolaos T Pyrsopoulos, FACP, FRCP (C), MD, PhD, Director, Professor, Research Scientist, (Email: pyrsopni@njms.rutgers.edu) Department of Medicine, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Rutgers University, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ 07103, United States

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The WJH is now abstracted and indexed in PubMed, PubMed Central, Emerging Sources Citation Index (Web of Science), Scopus, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), China Science and Technology Journal Database (CSTJ), and Superstar Journals Database.

Journal Metrics

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank) (2015): 0.858; IPP (Impact per Publication) (2015): 2.730; SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper) (2015): 1.206; and CiteScore (2016): 3.66.

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1948-5182 (online)

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Contents Volume 12 Issue 6 June 27, 2020

Minireviews

Endoscopic ultrasound in chronic liver disease

Brian M Fung, Alexander P Abadir, Armen Eskandari, Michael J Levy, James H Tabibian

World J Hepatol 12(6):262-276. Published online Jun 27, 2020. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v12.i6.262

Case Control Study

Changing delta hepatitis patient profile: A single center experience in Valencia region, Spain

Helena Hernàndez-Èvole, Álvaro Briz-Redón, Marina Berenguer

World J Hepatol 12(6):277-287. Published online Jun 27, 2020. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v12.i6.277

Retrospective Cohort Study

Hospital teaching status on the outcomes of patients with esophageal variceal bleeding in the United States

Pavan Patel, Laura Rotundo, Evan Orosz, Faiz Afridi, Nikolaos Pyrsopoulos

World J Hepatol 12(6):288-297. Published online Jun 27, 2020. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v12.i6.288

LIV-4: A novel model for predicting transplant-free survival in critically ill cirrhotics

Christina C Lindenmeyer, Gianina Flocco, Vedha Sanghi, Rocio Lopez, Ahyoung J Kim, Fadi Niyazi, Neal A Mehta, Aanchal Kapoor, William D Carey, Eduardo Mireles-Cabodevila, Carlos Romero-Marrero

World J Hepatol 12(6):298-311. Published online Jun 27, 2020. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v12.i6.298

Observational Study

Low phospholipid-associated cholelithiasis syndrome: A rare cause of acute pancreatitis that should not be neglected

Nicolas Gille, Pascale Karila-Cohen, Gaël Goujon, Dimitrios Konstantinou, Samia Rekik, Hakim Bécheur, Anne-Laure Pelletier

World J Hepatol 12(6):312-322. Published online Jun 27, 2020. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v12.i6.312

Prospective Study

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is not independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease event: A cohort study

Nima Motamed, Hossein Ajdarkosh, Maral Ahmadi, Dhayaneethie Perumal, G Hossein Ashrafi, Mehdi Nikkhah, Amir Hossein Faraji, Mansooreh Maadi, Mahmoodreza Khoonsari, Nader Rezaie, Behzad Farahani, Fahimeh Safarnezhad Tameshkel, Mitra Ameli, Mahshid Panahi, Mohammad Hadi Karbalaie Niya, Farhad Zamani

World J Hepatol 12(6):323-331. Published online Jun 27, 2020. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v12.i6.323