Proceedings of the 28th Annual Congress of the International Liver Transplantation Society

Johns Shaji Mathew; Alexandra Shingina; Mohammad Qasim Khan; Elizabeth Wilson; Nicholas Syn; Ashwin Rammohan; Felipe Alconchel; Abdul Rahman Hakeem; Sadhana Shankar; Dhupal Patel; Onur Keskin; Jiang Liu; David Nasralla; Alessandra Mazzola; Madhukar S Patel; Tomohiro Tanaka; David Victor; Uzung Yoon; Young-In Yoon; Carmen Vinaixa; Varvara Kirchner; Eleonora De Martin; R Mark Ghobrial; Ryan Chadha

doi:10.1097/LVT.0000000000000330

Proceedings of the 28th Annual Congress of the International Liver Transplantation Society

Liver Transpl. 2024 May 1;30(5):544-554. doi: 10.1097/LVT.0000000000000330. Epub 2024 Jan 22.

Authors

Johns Shaji Mathew¹, Alexandra Shingina², Mohammad Qasim Khan³, Elizabeth Wilson⁴, Nicholas Syn⁵, Ashwin Rammohan⁶, Felipe Alconchel⁷, Abdul Rahman Hakeem⁸, Sadhana Shankar⁹, Dhupal Patel¹⁰, Onur Keskin¹¹, Jiang Liu¹², David Nasralla¹³, Alessandra Mazzola¹⁴, Madhukar S Patel¹⁵, Tomohiro Tanaka¹⁶, David Victor¹⁷, Uzung Yoon¹⁸, Young-In Yoon¹⁹, Carmen Vinaixa^{20

21}, Varvara Kirchner²², Eleonora De Martin²³, R Mark Ghobrial²⁴, Ryan Chadha²⁵

Affiliations

¹ Department of GI, HPB & Multi-Organ Transplant Surgery, Rajagiri Hospital, Kochi, Kerala, India.
² Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
³ Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada.
⁴ Department of Anesthesiology, Emory University Hospital, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
⁵ Division of Biomedical Informatics, Department of Medicine, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
⁶ Institute of Liver Disease and Transplantation, Dr Rela Institute and Medical Centre, Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
⁷ Virgen de la Arrixaca University Hospital (IMIB), Murcia, Spain.
⁸ Department of Hepatobiliary and Liver Transplant Surgery, St James's University Hospital NHS Trust, Leeds, UK.
⁹ Institute of Liver Studies, King's College Hospital, London, UK.
¹⁰ Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, UK.
¹¹ Department of Gastroenterology, Hacettepe University Medical School, Ankara, Turkey.
¹² Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Center, Department of Medicine, Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
¹³ Department of HPB and Liver Transplant Surgery, The Royal Free Hospital, London, UK.
¹⁴ Sorbonne Université, Unité médicale de transplantation hépatique, AP-HP, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris, France.
¹⁵ Division of Surgical Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA.
¹⁶ Department of Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology and Hepatology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, USA.
¹⁷ Sherrie and Alan Conover Center for Liver Disease and Transplantation. Houston Methodist Hospital, Houston, Texas, USA.
¹⁸ Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
¹⁹ Asan Medical Center, Seoul, South Korea.
²⁰ Hepatology Unit, Digestive Diseases Department, Hospital Universitario y Politécnico La Fe, Valencia, Spain.
²¹ Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
²² Department of Surgery, Division of Abdominal Transplantation, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.
²³ AP-HP, Hôpital Paul-Brousse, Centre Hépato- Biliaire, Unité INSERM 1193, Villejuif, France.
²⁴ J.C. Walter Jr, Transplant Center, Department of Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, Houston Methodist Institute for Academic Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA.
²⁵ Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, USA.

PMID: 38240602
DOI: 10.1097/LVT.0000000000000330

Abstract

The 2023 Joint International Congress of the International Liver Transplantation Society (ILTS), the European Liver and Intestine Transplant Association (ELITA), and the Liver Intensive Care Group of Europe (LICAGE) held in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, marked a significant recovery milestone for the liver transplant community after COVID-19. With 1159 participants and a surge in abstract submissions, the event focused on "Liver Disorders and Transplantation: Innovations and Evolving Indications." This conference report provides a comprehensive overview of the key themes discussed during the event, encompassing Hepatology, Anesthesia and Critical Care, Acute Liver Failure, Infectious Disease, Immunosuppression, Pediatric Liver Transplantation, Living Donor Liver Transplantation, Transplant Oncology, Surgical Approaches, and Machine Perfusion. The congress provided a platform for extensive discussions on a wide range of topics, reflecting the continuous advancements and collaborative efforts within the liver transplant community.

Publication types

Congress

MeSH terms

Child
Humans
Immunosuppression Therapy
Liver Transplantation*
Living Donors