The overall objective of this activity is to address the epidemiology, risk factors and key challenges in the evaluation and management of cardiovascular disease in liver transplant candidates. In particular, we will discuss the evolving role of cirrhotic cardiomyopathy as a marker of ongoing cardiac injury.Lisa VanWagner (Moderator) Dr. Lisa VanWagner is an Assistant Professor of Medicine-GI & Hepatology and Preventive Medicine-Epidemiology at Northwestern University in Chicago, IL.  Dr.

Xiao Liu, Xiaoqiong Duan, Jacinta A. Holmes, Wenting Li, Sae Hwan Lee, Zeng Tu, Chuanlong Zhu, Shadi Salloum, Anna Lidofsky, Esperance A. Schaefer, Dachuan Cai, Shilin Li, Haoju Wang, Yongfu Huang, Yongju Zhao, Ming‐Lung Yu, Zhiwen Xu, Limin Chen, Jian Hong, Wenyu Lin, Raymond T. Chung – 10 September 2018 – Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) play a critical role in the regulation of many important cellular processes. However, the mechanisms by which lncRNAs regulate viral infection and host immune responses are not well understood.

David D. Lee, Mariya Samoylova, Neil Mehta, Kaitlyn R. Musto, John P. Roberts, Francis Y. Yao, Denise M. Harnois – 10 September 2018 – With recent changes in United Network for Organ Sharing policy, patients in the United States with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) are likely to spend more time on the liver transplantation (LT) waiting list. The increasing wait time will allow for an opportunity to assess tumor biology prior to LT.

Jacqueline G. O’Leary, K. Rajender Reddy, Florence Wong, Guadalupe Garcia‐Tsao, Patrick S. Kamath, Leroy R. Thacker, Jasmohan S. Bajaj – 10 September 2018

Filipe S. Cardoso – 10 September 2018

Jin Dong Kim, Eun Ju Cho, Choonghyun Ahn, Sue K. Park, Jong Young Choi, Han Chu Lee, Do Young Kim, Moon Seok Choi, Hee Jung Wang, In Hee Kim, Jong Eun Yeon, Yeon Seok Seo, Won Young Tak, Moon Young Kim, Heon Ju Lee, Yun Soo Kim, Dae Won Jun, Joo Hyun Sohn, So Young Kwon, Sang Hoon Park, Jeong Heo, Sook‐Hyang Jeong, Jeong‐Hoon Lee, Nobuaki Nakayama, Satoshi Mochida, Akio Ido, Hirohito Tsubouchi, Hazime Takikawa, Shalimar, Subrat Kumar Acharya, William Bernal, John O’Grady, Yoon Jun Kim – 8 September 2018 – Acute liver failure (ALF) caused by hepatitis A is a rare but fatal disease.

Claudia Campani, Maria Guido, Stefano Colagrande, Francesca Bartoli, Umberto Arena, Fabio Marra – 8 September 2018

Claudia Campani, Maria Guido, Stefano Colagrande, Francesca Bartoli, Umberto Arena, Fabio Marra – 8 September 2018

Sarah Raevens, Isabelle Colle, Anja Geerts, Hans Van Vlierberghe – 8 September 2018

Carlos Benítez, Rodrigo Wolff – 8 September 2018 – Liver transplantation (LT) was performed for the first time in Chile in 1969, but only since the 1990s has it been systematically performed. Our health system is strongly centralized, which is a severe limitation for the patients who need to be evaluated and subsequently listed.