Cirrhosis and End Stage Liver Disease:  complications and management of conditions such as portal hypertension, ascites, liver cancer and encephalopathy.

 

·        Cirrhosis and end-Stage Liver Disease

 

o       General

§        T1038. Prevalence of Complications Of Liver Cirrhosis In Patients With HCV Infection And Diabetes Mellitus. (updated, May 22)

§        T1039. Impact of prophylactic antibiotics in cirrhotic patients presenting with sepsis. (updated, May 22)

§        T1042. Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis: Assessment of In-Hospital Mortality Rates and Predictive Factors of Adverse Clinical Outcomes with Contemporary Medical Management. (updated, May 22)

§        T1043. Endoscopic Band Ligation May Not Be Inferior to Endoscopic Injection Sclerotheraphy in Cardiac Variceal Bleeding, Not Fundal Variceal Bleeding. (updated, May 22)

§        T1333. Predictive Factors Of Hepatocellular Carcinoma In Cirrhosis.

 

o       Liver Cancer (Hepatocellular Carcinoma – HCC)

§        101. Serum glypican 3 after curative hepatectomy predicts early-phase recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma.

§        S1009. Prognosis of Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma Detected by Surveillance Program. (updated, May 20)

§        S1011. Prognostic indicators of death in patients (pts) with cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) – A systematic review of 64 studies. (updated, May 20)

§        S1016. Changes Of Cytokines In Liver Cirrhosis Patients With Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma Treated By Combined Intra-Arterial Chemotherapy.

§        S1017. Role of combined Chemoembolisation/ Radiofrequency Ablation in the treatment of large/ multifocal Hepatocellular. (updated, May 20)

§        S1021. Changing Characteristics of Hepatitis C Related Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Japan. (updated, May 20)

§        S1222. Incidence and Risk Factors for Hepatic and Extrahepatic Malignancies in Primary Biliary Cirrhosis in Japan

 

o       Varices

§        S1340. Clinical Predictors for Recurrence of Esophageal Varices after Obliteration by Endoscopic Band Ligation.