Thursday 23 September

Programme

08:15 - 08:20

08:20 - 10:30

Welcome
G. Biancofiore
Cardiovascular update
Chairs: P. Bayly, A. De Gasperi

Cirrhotic cardiomyopathy and dysautonomia
Susan Mandell, Denver

Cardiovascular events and outcomes
Olaf Guckelberger, Berlin

Controversies in preoperative evaluation: testing and selection
James Findlay, Rochester

Management of ischemic and valvular disease at UCLA
Randolph Steadman, Los Angeles

Monitoring : TEE, PAC, new modalities
Giorgio Della Rocca, Udine

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee Break


11:00 – 12:15
Respiratory update
Chairs: G. Della Rocca, L. Gattinoni

Evaluating the potential recipient: the pulmonologist’s perpective
Pilar Morales, Valencia

Heptatopulmonary syndrome: pathophysiology, diagnosis, outcomes
Susan Mandell, Denver

Post-transplant respiratory complications
Marco Ranieri, Torino



12:15 - 12:45
Penelope Kaisserli Memorial Lecture
Chair: G. Biancofiore
Acute lung injury: diagnosis and management
Luciano Gattinoni, Milan
12:45 - 13:45
Lunch


13:45 - 15:30
Topics in Surgery, Hepatology and Infectious Disease
Chairs: R. Steadman, G. Rodriguez

Liver transplantation for alcoholic liver disease: selection and outcomes
Marco Senzolo, Padua

Liver implantation: techniques and challenges
Davide Ghinolfi, Pisa

Arterial hypoperfusion in the transplanted liver
Olaf Guckelberger, Berlin

Early bacterial infections
Fuat Saner, Essen

Fungal infections in liver recipients
Paulo Grossi, Varese

15:30 - 16:00
Coffee Break


16:15 – 17:40
Perioperative fluids and transfusion
Chairs: J. Klinck, C.-G. Krenn

Volume resuscitation in cirrhosis: do different solutions make a difference?
Luciano Gattinoni, Milan

Transfusion and the microcirculation
Can Ince, Rotterdam

Vasoconstrictors during liver transplantation: why, when and which?
Gebhard Wagener, New York

Analgesia, fluids an outcomes in liver resection
Yatin Young, Auckland

Massive transfusion: what’s new?
Kerry Gunn, Auckland



18:00 - 18:30
LICAGE Business Meeting


19:30 - 22:30
CONGRESS DINNER

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Friday 24 September

Programme

08:15 - 10:15

Coagulation update
Chairs: M. Ramsay, K. Gunn

Coagulation in end-stage liver disease: pathophysiology and monitoring
Armando Tripodi, Milan

Factor concentrates: why should we use them in liver transplantation?
Klaus Gorlinger, Essen

Plasma for coagulopathy: FFP vs SD-treated human plasma solution
Marco Marietta, Modena

Operating room monitoring and management
Susan Mallett, London

Hypercoagulation
Michael Ramsay, Dallas

10:15 - 10:45

Coffee Break



10:45 – 12:15

Basic Science and Physiology
Chairs: C. Niemann, J. Findlay

Measuring the microcirculation
Can Ince, Rotterdam

Physics of arterial pressure monitoring and effects of vasopressors
Ari Ercole, Cambridge

Perioperative renal injury: novel markers
Gebhard Wagener, New York

Monitoring function in the transplanted liver
Claus-Georg Krenn, Vienna

12:15 - 13:15

Lunch



13:15 - 15:30

Special topics
Chairs: F. Saner, S. Mandell

MARS dialysis in acute liver failure
Christophe Camus, Rennes

Extracorporeal clearance of Lipid A: a novel therapy in sepsis
Franco Roberto, Rome

Hypoadrenalism in liver recipients
Stefano Faenza, Bologna

Paediatric update
James Bennett, Birmingham

Starting a liver transplant anaesthesia service in a developing country
Gamal Fuad S Zaki, Cairo

Data collection and quality improvement in liver transplantation
Ann Walia, Nashville

15:30 - 16:00

Coffee Break



16:00 - 17:30

Interactive cases
Chairs: P. Bayly, R. Steadman

Cases of special interest or educational value, presented in stages with key pauses before diagnostic or therapeutic decisions. Panel and audience is invited (what would you do next?)

Erythropoietic Protoporphyria and acute liver failure
Alistair Lee, Edinburgh

Primary non-function: is there a role for hepatectomy?
Harendra Arora, Chapel Hill

Fulminant Wilson’s and Tetralogy of Fallot
Andreu Cueva Suller, Valencia

Liver resection in a high risk patient
Sundar Reddy, Iowa City



17:30

Closing remarks

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