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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.

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

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 1 January 27, 2020

Editorial

Meeting report of the editorial board meeting for World Journal of Hepatology 2019

Ruo-Yu Ma

World J Hepatol 12(1):1-5. Published online Jan 27, 2020. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v12.i1.1

Minireviews

Concise review of machine perfusion in liver transplantation

Chirag S Desai, David A Gerber

World J Hepatol 12(1):6-9. Published online Jan 27, 2020. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v12.i1.6

Retrospective Study

Lessons from “real life experience” of rifaximin use in the management of recurrent hepatic encephalopathy

Fiona Chautant, Maeva Guillaume, Marie-Angèle Robic, Jean-François Cadranel, Jean-Marie Peron, Hortensia Lison, Charlène Cool, Christophe Bureau, Véronique Duhalde

World J Hepatol 12(1):10-20. Published online Jan 27, 2020. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v12.i1.10

Observational Study

Imaging response predictors following drug eluting beads chemoembolization in the neoadjuvant liver transplant treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma

Francisco Leonardo Galastri, Felipe Nasser, Breno Boueri Affonso, Leonardo Guedes Moreira Valle, Bruno Calazans Odísio, Joaquim Mauricio Motta-Leal Filho, Paolo Rogério Salvalaggio, Rodrigo Gobbo Garcia, Márcio Dias de Almeida, Ronaldo Hueb Baroni, Nelson Wolosker

World J Hepatol 12(1):21-33. Published online Jan 27, 2020. doi: 10.4254/wjh.v12.i1.21