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CONGRESS 2015
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08:30
Introduction: Treatment of hepatitis C: towards the eradication?
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Patrick MARCELLIN (France)
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08:40 - 09:00
State of the art lecture
Chairman:
Tarik ASSELAH (France)Download
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Treatment of hepatitis C today and tomorrow
- Antonio CRAXI (Italy)
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09:00 - 10:00
How to optimize current therapy of G1 patients
Chairs :
Nezam AFDHAL (USA) Stanislas POL (France)
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09:00
PEG IFN based therapy with 2nd wave DAAs
- Donald JENSEN (USA)
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09:15
Shortened therapy with IFN-based therapy
- Thomas BERG (Germany)
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09:30
Predictors of response to IFN-based therapy
- Lawrence SERFATY (France)
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- 09:45 Round table discussion
- 10:00 - 10:20 Coffee break
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10:20 - 11:20
How to optimize current therapy of non G1 patients
Chairs :
Jake LIANG (USA) Stefan ZEUZEM (Germany)
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10:20
Genotype 2, what’s new?
- Marc BOURLIERE (France)
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10:35
Why genotype 3 is difficult to cure?
- Graham FOSTER (UK)
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10:50
Genotype 4, finally cured?
- Imam WAKED (Egypt)
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- 11:05 Round table discussion
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11:20 - 12:30
How to improve access to therapy?
Chairs :
Massimo COLOMBO (Italy)Download Michael FRIED (USA)
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Victor DE LEDINGHEN (France)
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12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Workshops Room 253
The long term impact of treatment on the outcome of liver disease
Chairs: Jia-Horng KAO (Taiwan)
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Room 241
First line therapy of hepatitis B: interferon or analogues?
Chairs: Rafael ESTEBAN (Spain)
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Room 242B
Clinical applications of HBsAg quantification
Chairs: Philippe HALFON (France)
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Room 242A
Staging of fibrosis: liver biopsy or indirect markers?
Chairs: Pierre BEDOSSA (France)
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Room 252B
Treatment of HCV cirrhosis and transplanted patients
Chairs: Rajiv JALAN (UK) Didier SAMUEL (France)
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Room 251
HIV-HCV coinfections
Chairs: Juergen ROCKSTROH (Germany)
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Room 252A
Interferon ou analogue ? (French speaking lunch workshop)
Chairs: Denis OUZAN (France)
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Room 243
Faut-il traiter les immunotolérants et les porteurs inactifs ? (French speaking lunch workshop)
Chairs: Mustapha BENAZZOUZ (Morocco)
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14:30 - 15:35
Special populations
Chairs :
Maria BUTI (Spain) François DURAND (France)
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14:30
Patients with comorbidities
- Savino BRUNO (Italy)
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14:45
DAAs and transplant patients
- Didier SAMUEL (France)
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15:00
HIV co-infected patients
- Juergen ROCKSTROH (Germany)
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- 15:15 Round table discussion
- 15:35 - 16:00 Coffee break
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16:00 - 16:50
New therapeutic strategies
Chairs :
Ira JACOBSON (USA) Michael MANNS (Germany)
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16:00
INF-free therapy in naïve patients
- Tarik ASSELAH (France)
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16:15
INF-free therapy in experienced patients
- David NELSON (USA)
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- 16:30 Round table discussion
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16:50 - 17:25
Controversy: Cure of HCV-related liver disease?
Chairman:
Eugene SCHIFF (USA)
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16:50
No
- Mitchell SHIFFMAN (USA)
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17:00
Yes
- Yves BENHAMOU (France)
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- 17:10 Discussion
- 17:25 Hepatitis C: A public health priority - Bernard KOUCHNER (France)
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17:40
Take home messages
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Tarik ASSELAH (France)
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17:50
Conclusion
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Patrick MARCELLIN (France)
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- 19:30 Congress dinner
- 08:30 Introduction: is HBV controlled? - Patrick MARCELLIN (France)
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08:40 - 10:00
The control of HBV related liver disease
Chairs :
Laurent CASTERA (France) Fabien ZOULIM (France)
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08:40
Cirrhosis reversibility: who and why?
- Pierre BEDOSSA (France)
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08:55
HBsAg quantification to manage patients
- Michelle MARTINOT-PEIGNOUX (France)
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09:10
What have we learned from HBV clinical cohorts?
- Jia-Horng KAO (Taiwan)
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- 09:30 Round table discussion
- 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
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10:30 - 12:00
Optimal therapy of chronic hepatitis B
Chairs :
Adrian GADANO (Argentina) Jidong JIA (China)
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10:30
How do I treat my HBeAg-positive patients?
- Georgios PAPATHEODORIDIS (Greece)
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10:50
How do I treat my HBeAg-negative patients?
- Pietro LAMPERTICO (Italy)
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11:10
HBV: perspectives for treatment
- Jorg PETERSEN (Germany)
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- 11:30 Round table discussion
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12:00 - 12:30
State of the art lecture
Chairman:
Tarik ASSELAH (France)
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12:00
HBV and the immune response
- Carlo FERRARI (Italy)
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12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Workshops Room 242A
How to optimize treatment in G1 naive patients?
Chairs: Antonio CRAXI (Italy) Raluca PAIS (France)
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Room 251
HCV eradication with DAAs?
Chairs: Emilie ESTRABAUD (France)
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Room 252B
How to manage relapsers and non-responders to PEG IFN + RBV therapy
Chairs: Peter FERENCI (Austria)
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Room 252A
Triple therapy with telaprevir or boceprevir: management of side effects
Chairs: Donald JENSEN (USA) Markus PECK RADOSAVLJEVIC (Austria) Petr URBANEK (Czech Republic)
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Room 241
Future therapeutic strategies with direct acting antivirals
Chairs: Nezam AFDHAL (USA)
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Room 253
How to optimize treatment in G4 patients?
Chairs: Tarik ASSELAH (France) Gamal ESMAT (Egypt)
Room 242B
Traitements des patients rechuteurs et non répondeurs (French speaking lunch workshop)
Chairs: Jean-Pierre BRONOWICKI (France) Christophe HEZODE (France) Badreddine KILANI (Tunisia)
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Room 243
Comment optimiser le traitement des malades naïfs ? (French speaking lunch workshop)
Chairs: Nabil DEBZI (Algeria)
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14:30 - 15:00
State of the art lecture and Award
Chairman:
Patrick MARCELLIN (France)Download
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14:30
Viral hepatitis: the past and the future
- Eugene SCHIFF (USA)
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15:00 - 16:30
End-stage liver disease is a multifaceted condition
Chairs :
Adrian DI BISCEGLIE (USA) Richard MOREAU (France)
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15:00
Acute-on-chronic liver failure is a new clinical entity
- Vicente ARROYO (Spain)
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15:20
Management of hepatocellular carcinoma in 2015
- Massimo COLOMBO (Italy)
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15:40
The coagulation system in end-stage liver disease
- Dominique VALLA (France)
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- 16:00 Round table discussion
- 16:30 Take home message - Tarik ASSELAH (France)
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16:40
Conclusion
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Patrick MARCELLIN (France)
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- 16:45 Closing session