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CONGRESS 2016
- 08:30 Introduction: Treatment of hepatitis C: Access to eradication ! - Patrick MARCELLIN (France) Download
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08:40 - 09:00
State of the art lecture
Chairman:
Tarik ASSELAH (France) Download
- The influence of therapy on the burden of hepatitis C - Michael FRIED (USA) Download
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09:00 - 10:00
Who to treat?
Chairs :
Antonio CRAXI (Italy) Stanislas POL (France)
- 09:00 Why do I treat my patients with mild hepatitis? - Antonio CRAXI (Italy) Download
- 09:15 Why don’t I treat my patients with mild hepatitis? - Christophe HEZODE (France) Download
- 09:30 Is the benefit to treat patients with cirrhosis proven? - Savino BRUNO (Italy) Download
- 09:45 Round table discussion
- 10:00 - 10:20 Coffee break
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10:20 - 11:05
How to optimize therapy?
Chairs :
Jake LIANG (USA) Marc BOURLIERE (France)
- 10:20 Is it useful to detect resistance associated variants? - Stefan ZEUZEM (Germany)
- 10:35 Individual optimization of therapy (shorten therapy) - Graham FOSTER (UK) Download
- 10:50 Round table discussion
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11:05 - 12:30 How to improve access to therapy? Around the World table NORTH & WEST
Chairpersons: Massimo COLOMBO (Italy) Download Nezam AFDHAL (USA) Download
Speakers: Victor DE LEDINGHEN (France) Download Rafael ESTEBAN (Spain) Download Graham FOSTER (UK) Download Michael MANNS (Germany) Download
SOUTH & EAST
Chairpersons: Adrian GADANO (Argentina) Robert FLISIAK (Poland)
Speakers: Raymundo PARANA (Brazil) Mihai VOICULESCU (Romania) Download Vasily ISAKOV (Russia) Download Ahmed El RAY (Egypt) Download Tengiz TSERTSVADZE (Georgia) Download
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12:30 - 14:30 Lunch Workshops Room 252B
Future therapies for HBV and HDV: what can we expect?
Chairs: Michael MANNS (Germany) Jake LIANG (USA)
Room 242A
First line therapy of hepatitis B: interferon or analogues?
Chairs: Graham FOSTER (UK) Jia-Horng KAO (Taiwan)
Room 242B
Clinical applications of HBsAg quantification
Chairs: Philippe HALFON (France) Jidong JIA (China)
Room 253
Staging of steatosis and fibrosis: liver biopsy or indirect markers?
Chairs: Pierre BEDOSSA (France) Download Victor DE LEDINGHEN (France) Download
Speaker:
Laurent CASTERA (France)
Room 251
Treatment of HCV cirrhosis and transplanted patients: when and how?
Chairs: Didier SAMUEL (France) Dominique VALLA (France)
Room 243
Traitement HBV : Interféron ou analogues? (French speaking lunch workshop)
Chairs: Christian TREPO (France) Download Jean-Pierre ZARSKI (France) Download
Room 252A
HBV : Faut-il traiter les immunotolérants et les porteurs inactifs ? (French speaking lunch workshop)
Chairs: Denis OUZAN (France) Jean-François David CADRANEL (France)
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14:30 - 15:35
Special populations
Chairs :
Maria BUTI (Spain) François DURAND (France)
- 14:30 Patients with chronic Kidney diseases - Stanislas POL (France) Download
- 14:45 DAAs and transplanted patients - Didier SAMUEL (France) Download
- 15:00 HIV-HCV co-infected patients - Mark SULKOWSKI (USA) Download
- 15:15 Round table discussion
- 15:35 - 16:05 Coffee break
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16:05 - 16:55
New therapeutic strategies
Chairs :
Marc BOURLIERE (France) Michael MANNS (Germany)
- 16:05 How to improve the therapeutic strategies? - Tarik ASSELAH (France) Download
- 16:20 How to provide the best treat with what is available? - David NELSON (USA) Download
- 16:35 Round table discussion
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16:55 - 17:40
How to optimize the strategy against HCV?
Chairs :
Peter FERENCI (Austria) Eugene SCHIFF (USA)
- 16:55 Universal screening? - Mitchell SHIFFMAN (USA) Download
- 17:10 Follow-up of patients with SVR - Lawrence SERFATY (France) Download
- 17:25 Round table discussion
- 17:40 - 17:50 Take home messages - Massimo COLOMBO (Italy) Download
- 17:50 - 18:00 Conclusion - Patrick MARCELLIN (France)
- 19:30 Congress dinner
- 08:30 Introduction: Hepatitis B, the come back? - Patrick MARCELLIN (France) Download
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08:40 - 10:00
What's new in hepatitis B?
Chairs :
Laurent CASTERA (France) Fabien ZOULIM (France)
- 08:40 Clinical relevance of HBV cccDNA - Fabien ZOULIM (France) Download
- 08:55 Virological markers for the management of patients - Michelle MARTINOT-PEIGNOUX (France) Download
- 09:10 New therapeutic perspectives? - Jia-Horng KAO (Taiwan) Download
- 09:30 Round table discussion
- 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break
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10:30 - 11:45
Optimal therapy of chronic hepatitis B
Chairs :
Adrian GADANO (Argentina) Jidong JIA (China)
- 10:30 Do I treat my immunotolerant patients? - Georgios PAPATHEODORIDIS (Greece) Download
- 10:45 Prognosis and management of inactive carriers - Pietro LAMPERTICO (Italy) Download
- 11:00 Which pregnant women to treat? - Jidong JIA (China) Download
- 11:15 Round table discussion
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11:45 - 12:15
State of the art lecture
Chairman:
Marc BOURLIERE (France) Download
- Hepatitis E : the neglected one - Jean-Marie PÉRON (France) Download
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12:15 - 14:15 Lunch Workshops Room 251
Are DAAs therapies associated with HCV eradication?
Chairs: Lawrence SERFATY (France) Mitchell SHIFFMAN (USA)
Room 243
How to manage relapsers and non-responders to PEG-IFN + RBV therapy?
Chairs: Peter FERENCI (Austria) Download Adrian DI BISCEGLIE (USA)
Room 242A
How to optimize treatment in G3 patients?
Chairs: Michael FRIED (USA) Marc BOURLIERE (France)
Room 252B
Need to assess HCV resistance profile before the initiation of DAAs therapy?
Chair: Fabien ZOULIM (France)
Room 242B
Management and treatment of NASH
Chairs: Vlad RATZIU (France) Antonello PIETRANGELO (Italy)
Room 252A
Traitements des patients atteints de cirrhose (French speaking lunch workshop)
Chairs: Mihai VOICULESCU (Romania) Download Jean-Pierre BRONOWICKI (France)
Room 241
HCV : comment re-traiter les rechuteurs et les non-répondeurs ? (French speaking lunch workshop)
Chairs: Daniel DHUMEAUX (France) Philippe MATHURIN (France)
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14:15 - 14:45
State of the art lecture and award
Chairman:
Patrick MARCELLIN (France) Download
- The adventure of Delta - Mario RIZZETTO (Italy) Download
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14:45 - 16:00
End-stage liver disease is a multifaceted condition
Chairs :
Adrian DI BISCEGLIE (USA) Richard MOREAU (France)
- 14:45 Management of uninfected and infected ascites in cirrhosis - Pere GINES (Spain)
- 15:00 Iron and the liver - Antonello PIETRANGELO (Italy)
- 15:15 Treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma: beyond international guidelines - Massimo COLOMBO (Italy) Download
- 15:30 Round table discussion
- 16:00 Take home message - Marc BOURLIERE (France) Download
- 16:10 Conclusion - Patrick MARCELLIN (France)
- 16:20 Closing session