Erratum to: Hepatol Int DOI 10.1007/s12072-008-9072-3, 10.1007/s12072-008-9074-1, 10.1007/s12072-008-9075-0, 10.1007/s12072-008-9076-z, 10.1007/s12072-008-9077-y, 10.1007/s12072-008-9078-x, 10.1007/s12072-008-9080-3, 10.1007/s12072-008-9081-2

Subsequent to the publication of these articles copyright was transferred to Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver.

Spontaneous rupture of metastatic α-fetoprotein-producing gastric cancer of the liver

Tetsuro Sohda1, Takayuki Hanano1, Hisanori Miyamoto1, Yoko Kitano1, Kaoru Iwata1, Masanori Yokoyama1, Makoto Irie1, Yasuaki Takeyama1, Satoshi Shakado1 and Shotaro Sakisaka1

10.1007/s12072-008-9072-3

(1) Department of Gastroenterology and Medicine, Fukuoka University School of Medicine, 7-45-1 Nanakuma, Jonan-ku, Fukuoka 814-0180, Japan

Updates in the pathogenesis, diagnosis and management of ectopic varices

Ahmed Helmy1,2, Khalid Al Kahtani2 and Mohamed Al Fadda2

10.1007/s12072-008-9074-1

(1) Department of Gastroenterology and Tropical Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University Hospital, Assiut, Egypt

(2) Section of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre (KFSH&RC), MBC 46, P.O. Box 3354, Riyadh 11211, Saudi Arabia

Hepatocellular adenoma: what is new in 2008

Paulette Bioulac-Sage1, Hervé Laumonier2, Christophe Laurent3, Jessica Zucman-Rossi4 and Charles Balabaud5

10.1007/s12072-008-9075-0

(1) Department of Pathology, Hôpital Pellegrin CHU Bordeaux, Université Bordeaux 2, Inserm 889, Bordeaux Cedex, France

(2) Department of Radiology, Hôpital St André CHU Bordeaux, Bordeaux Cedex, France

(3) Department of Surgery, Hôpital St André CHU Bordeaux, Bordeaux Cedex, France

(4) Inserm U674, Paris, France

(5) Department of Hepatology, Hôpital St André CHU Bordeaux, Université Bordeaux 2, Inserm 889, Bordeaux Cedex, France

The effect of iron depletion on chronic hepatitis C virus infection

Massimo Franchini1, Giovanni Targher2, Franco Capra3, Martina Montagnana4 and Giuseppe Lippi4

10.1007/s12072-008-9076-z

(1) Servizio di Immunoematologia e Trasfusione, Centro Emofilia, Azienda Ospedaliera di Verona, Ospedale Policlinico, Piazzale Ludovico Scuro, Verona 37134, Italy

(2) Sezione di Endocrinologia e Malattie del Metabolismo, Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche e Chirurgiche, Università di Verona, Verona, Italy

(3) Medicina Interna C, Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche e Chirurgiche, Università di Verona, Verona, Italy

(4) Instituto di Chimica e Microscopia Clinica, Dipartimento di Scienze Morfologico-Biomediche, Università di Verona, Verona, Italy

Nitric oxide levels in chronic liver disease patients with and without oesophageal varices

Assem M. El-Sherif1, Mohamed A. Abou-Shady1, Ashraf M. Al-Bahrawy1, Reda M. Bakr1 and Abdel-Moneim M. Hosny2

10.1007/s12072-008-9077-y

(1) Internal Medicine Department, Al-Azhar Faculty of Medicine, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt

(2) Clinical Pathology Department, Al-Azhar Faculty of Medicine, Nasr City, Cairo, Egypt

Acute fatal presentation of ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency in a previously healthy male

Ophir D. Klein1,2, Dana R. Kostiner2,3, Kara Weisiger2, Ellen Moffatt4, Neal Lindeman4, Stephen Goodman5, Mendel Tuchman6 and Seymour Packman2

10.1007/s12072-008-9078-x

(1) Departments of Orofacial Sciences and Pediatrics, and Institute of Human Genetics, University of California San Francisco, 513 Parnassus Ave., Box 0442, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA

(2) Department of Pediatrics, Division of Medical Genetics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

(3) Present address: Departments of Medical Genetics and Internal Medicine, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, San Francisco, USA

(4) Department of Pathology, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

(5) University of Colorado School of Medicine/The Children’s Hospital, Denver, CO, USA

(6) Children’s Research Institute, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA

Asian-Pacific consensus statement on the management of chronic hepatitis B: a 2008 update

Yun-Fan Liaw1, Nancy Leung2, Jia-Horng Kao3, Teerha Piratvisuth4, Edward Gane5, Kwang-Hyub Han6, Richard Guan7, George K. K. Lau8, Stephen Locarnini9 and for the Chronic Hepatitis B Guideline Working Party of the Asian-Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver

10.1007/s12072-008-9080-3

(1) Liver Research Unit, Chang Gung University and Memorial Hospital, 199, Tung Hwa North Road, Taipei, Taiwan

(2) Department of Medicine, Alice Ho Miu Ling Nethersole Hospital, Room 65, J6, 11 Chuen On Road, Taipo, NT, Hong Kong

(3) Hepatitis Research Center, National Taiwan University Hospital, 7 Chung-Shan South Road, Taipei 100, Taiwan

(4) NKC Institute of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Songklanagarind Hospital, Prince of Songkla University, Hat Yai 90110, Thailand

(5) NZ Liver Transplant Unit, Auckland, New Zealand

(6) Department of Internal Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Liver Cirrhosis Clinical Research Center, Seoul, Korea

(7) Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre and National University Hospital Singapore, 3 Mt Elizabeth, #17-02, Singapore 228570, Singapore

(8) Department of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Room 1838, Block K, Queen Mary Hospital, 102 Pokfulum Road, Hong Kong SAR, China

(9) Research & Molecular Development, Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, WHO Collaborating Centre for Virus Reference & Research, 10 Wreckyn Street, North Melbourne, VIC 3051, Australia

Combination therapy of lamivudine and adefovir in Japanese patients with chronic hepatitis B

Satoshi Shakado1,2, Hiroshi Watanabe1, Takashi Tanaka1,2, Daisuke Morihara1,2, Shinya Nishizawa1,2, Shinjiro Inomata1, Syuichi Ueda1, Teruo Matsumoto1, Akira Anan1,2, Yasuaki Takeyama1, Makoto Irie1, Kaoru Iwata1, Tetsuro Sohda1 and Shotaro Sakisaka1,2

10.1007/s12072-008-9081-2

(1) The Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Fukuoka University School of Medicine, 7-45-1 Nanakuma, Jonan-ku, Fukuoka 814-0180, Japan

(2) The Division of Advanced Clinical Research for Viral Hepatitis and Liver Cancer, Fukuoka University School of Medicine, 7-45-1 Nanakuma, Jonan-ku, Fukuoka 814-0180, Japan