ESAO - Liver Support Working Group

The ESAO One Day on the Liver 2008 in Geneva - Thursday, Sept. 4th, 2008

As all the recent years the “One day on the liver” – a day dedicated to liver support systems and therapeutic strategies in the case of a failing liver - will take place during the ESAO 2008 meeting in Geneva.
For the first time we organised the "Young investigators' Liver Session". We asked the heads of several groups working in the field to send one of their best students to present their latest results. This session is dedicated to PhD students and is chaired by PhD students involved in liver support research. Of course all participants of the meeting are invited to attend!

The ESAO One Day on the Liver 2008 (ODOL) will take place Thursday, Sept. 4th, 2008.

First World Bioprinting Congress

ESAO Board of Governors - I.M. Sauer elected

During the annual meeting of the ESAO 2007 in Krems Dr. Igor M. Sauer has been elected for the Board of Governors.

ESAO 2007 - One Day on the Liver

ESAO 2007 in Krems - One Day on the Liver

ESAO 2007 meeting in Krems
One Day on the Liver – Final program

 

 

 

The ESAO One Day on the Liver 2007 (ODOL) will take place Thursday, Sept. 6th, 2007 in Room E 11:

10:00 – 11:30 (90 min)    Chair: Vienken, Legalais

• What’s new in the world of liver support?
  • 10:00 – 10:15    Brief report from the USA (Ash)
  • 10:15 – 10:30    Brief report from Japan (Hirasawa)

• Aspects concerning the (patho-)physiology of the failing liver
  • 10:30 – 10:50    Toxins in liver failure – what is relevant, what do we have to remove? (Joannidis)
  • 10:50 – 11:10    Coagulation, anticoagulation, and the failing liver (Falkenhagen)
  • 11:10 – 11:30    Alcoholic liver cirrhosis: successful Treatment with novel autologous liver cell transplantation procedure (Lindl)

14:00 – 15:30 (90 min)    Chair: Falkenhagen, Sauer

• Clinical application of liver support systems – where do we stand today?
  • 14:00 – 14:15    Prometheus: impact on pruritus (Rifai)
  • 14:15 – 14:30 Mars versus Prometheus in clinical practice: What do we know? (Wilmer)
  • 14:30 – 14:45 Selective Plasma Filtration Therapy [SEPET] for Liver Failure - Early Clinical Experience (Rozga)
  • 14:45 – 15:00    Plasmapheresis in cases of liver failure – a simple but effective concept (Kazuaki)
  • 15:00 – 15:15 Bioartificial Liver Support for Acute Decompensation of Chronic Liver Disease: Clinical Results (Millis)

17:00 – 18:00 (60 min)    Chair: Sauer, Weber

• Concepts and Technologies
  • 17:00 – 17:15    Cells for bioartifcial liver support (Hoekstra)
  • 17:15 – 17:30 Development and evaluation of a new whole-blood perfused bioreactor (Kobayashi)
  • 17:30 – 17:45    Hepa Wash (Kreymann)
  • 17:45 – 18:00    Carbon Block vs. Granular Columns for Binding of Liver Failure Toxins (Ash)

The full program is available here (PDF), general information concerning the ESAO 2007 meetin in Krems is available via the official webpage.

One Day ond the Liver 2007 in Krems in cooperation with the 9th International Symposium on Albumin Dialysis in Liver Disease (ISAD) in Rostock-Warnemünde

The European Society for Artificial Organs has for a long time reflected scientific aspects for the treatment of liver failure using artifical and bioartificial liver support systems. Therefore, during the ESAO Congress in Lausanne in 2000, ESAO has introduced a special meeting called "One Day on the Liver".

In 2007 our Liver Working Group, managed by Dr. Igor Sauer, will organize a highly ranked “One Day on the Liver Meeting”, which will be held on September 6th and 7th (end 12.30 p.m.).

Thanks to an agreement with the organizers of the International Symposium on Albumin Dialysis in Liver Disease (ISAD) we have determined a way for both meetings to be attended with convenient low cost travel arrangements. A bus has been scheduled to leave Krems at 2.00 p.m.. The bus will transport     persons to Vienna International Airport. A sufficient number of seats have been booked on a flight from Vienna to Berlin Tegel (starting 5.00 p.m. from Vienna) for attendance of the ISAD (www.albumin-dialysis.org). A bus will be waiting at Berlin Tegel Airport for the transfer to Rostock Warnemünde.

    If you attending the ESAO-Congress 2007, the price for the
    whole transfer is just  € 60,--

This includes the bus transfer from Krems to Vienna International Airport, the flight from Vienna to Berlin and the bus transfer from Berlin to Rostock Warnemünde.  

Cave! Please book the transfer from Krems to Rostock Warnemünde before July 30, 2007 via the ESAO Scientific Secretary, Mrs. Anita Aichinger using the following contact information:
   

Center for Biomedical Technology
Danube-University Krems
Dr. Karl Dorrek Str. 30
A-3500 Krems, Austria
Phone: +43 2732 893 2601, Fax: +43 2732 893 4600
e-mail: esao2007@donau-uni.ac.at

 

 

Perspectives in Liver Transplantation

EASL Monothematic Symposium on Acute Liver Failure

The European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL) invites you to join  the monothematic symposium on acute liver failure, which will take place in the Copenhagen, Denmark, September 5-7, 2007. There have been many advances in our knowledge of aetiology and pathogenesis that have allowed us to improve intensive care management of these desperately sick patients of whom many still succumb to either multi-organ failure or development of severe brain oedema. Refinement for the use of liver grafting in the most severe cases has also over the last decade been improved. Furthermore many new designs of liver support devices have been introduced of which several are undergoing clinical evaluation.

More information is avaliable via http://www.easl.ch/acute-liver-failure/index.asp .

World Apheresis Association (WAA) 11 th Congress and 6 th World Congress of the International Society for Apheresis (ISFA)

The combined meeting of World Apheresis Association (WAA) 11 th Congress and 6 th World Congress of the International Society for Apheresis (ISFA) will take place in Pacifico Yokohama Yokohama, Japan, from March 2―4, 2007. WAA federates many national, continental and international societies for hemapheresis and transfusion science, and ISFA is a representative international society for therapeutic apheresis. They have contributed to the development of these scientific fields for many years. These two societies serve a regular meeting every two years. This is the first combined congress of the two Societies. It is really an anniversary congress. Many lecture, symposium, workshop and seminars are planned in the congress. Highly scientific papers will be presented at free communications and poster sessions. Several supports will be provided to the participants from developing countries. At the same period, 27 th Annual Meeting of Japanese Society for Apheresis (JSFA) will be held in the adjacent venue. I expect the full communication between foreign guests and Japanese participants. All scientists, researchers, clinicians and co-medicals of are encouraged to submit abstracts and join this anniversary congress. More information via the official webpage.