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Brief overview of strategy for the development of immune-competent bioengineered humanized liver using acellularization and repopulation technology for future biomedical applications.

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Morphometric characterization of mice subjected to prolonged high-fat diet-feeding.

Sinusoidal dilatation and hepatocellular plate atrophy in zone 3 (arrow marks hepatic vein branch) (20 ×) (A); Zone 3 congestion and red blood cell extravasation (20 ×) (B).

Variability of histological specimens in HE (top) and PicroSirius red (bottom) stained transjugular biopsy specimens.

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Hepatic histology of the group of males of 40%.

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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 11 Issue 8 August 27, 2019

Opinion Review

Is porto sinusoidal vascular disease to be actively searched in patients with portal vein thrombosis?

Stefania Gioia, Silvia Nardelli, Lorenzo Ridola, Giulia d’Amati, Oliviero Riggio

World J Hepatol 11(8):613-618. Published online Aug 27, 2019. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v11.i8.613

Basic Study

Prolonged high-fat-diet feeding promotes non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and alters gut microbiota in mice

Kandy T Velázquez, Reilly T Enos, Jackie E Bader, Alexander T Sougiannis, Meredith S Carson, Ioulia Chatzistamou, James A Carson, Prakash S Nagarkatti, Mitzi Nagarkatti, E Angela Murphy

World J Hepatol 11(8):619-637. Published online Aug 27, 2019. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v11.i8.619

Retrospective Study

Impact of psychosocial comorbidities on clinical outcomes after liver transplantation: Stratification of a high-risk population

Neil Bhogal, Amaninder Dhaliwal, Elizabeth Lyden, Fedja Rochling, Marco Olivera-Martinez

World J Hepatol 11(8):638-645. Published online Aug 27, 2019. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v11.i8.638

Observational Study

Outpatient telephonic transitional care after hospital discharge improves survival in cirrhotic patients

Bhavana Bhagya Rao, Anastasia Sobotka, Rocio Lopez, Carlos Romero-Marrero, William Carey

World J Hepatol 11(8):646-655. Published online Aug 27, 2019. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v11.i8.646

Case Report

Fascioliasis presenting as colon cancer liver metastasis on ¹⁸F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography: A case report

Sami Akbulut, Egemen Ozdemir, Emine Samdanci, Selver Unsal, Murat Harputluoglu, Sezai Yilmaz

World J Hepatol 11(8):656-662. Published online Aug 27, 2019. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v11.i8.656