A Model to Predict 1‐Month Risk of Transplant or Death in Hepatitis A–Related Acute Liver Failure

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.

LiverLearning®: 2018 Webinar: Implications of the Hepatitis C Epidemic on Women & Children

Chronic hepatitis C infection remains a major public health burden with substantial morbidity and mortality. In this program, expert hepatologists will provide a state-of-the-art update on the evolving epidemiology, natural history, and evidence-based management of hepatitis C infection in women of child-bearing age, pregnancy, and children.Dawn S. Harrison (Moderator) Dawn S. Harrison is a Family Nurse Practitioner specializing in Gastroenterology and Hepatology at The University of North Carolina Medical Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Follicular T Helper Cell Signatures in Primary Biliary Cholangitis and Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis

Leonie Adam, Katharina Zoldan, Maike Hofmann, Michael Schultheiss, Dominik Bettinger, Christoph Neumann‐Haefelin, Robert Thimme, Tobias Boettler – 7 September 2018 – Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) and primary biliary cholangitis (PBC) are the most common cholestatic liver diseases. While PBC is generally accepted to be an autoimmune disorder characterized by pathognomonic autoantibodies against mitochondrial antigens, the pathogenesis of PSC is less precisely defined; however, some degree of altered immunity toward autoantigens has been suggested.

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