ICA-EASL JOINT MEETING
Vienna (Austria) April 22nd, 2015 at 8.00 a.m.
BACTERIAL INFECTIONS IN PATIENTS WITH CIRRHOSIS
Chairs; M. Bernardi, P. Angeli
Introduction
8.00-8.10
M. Bernardi (Bologna, Italy)
Microbiology of bacterial infections in cirrhosis; how has it changed over the last years?
PL Viale (Bologna, Italy)
8.10-8.30
The microbiome and bacterial translocation in cirrhosis
B. Schnabl (San Diego, CA, US)
8.30-8.50
Non antibiotic prophylaxis of bacterial infections in cirrhosis; where we are and where we are going to?
G. Garcia-Tsao (New Haven, US)
8.50-9.10
Discussion 9.10-9.30
Coffee break 9.30-10.00
New protocols of empirical antibiotic treatment of bacterial infections in cirrhosis
J- Fernandez (Barcelona, Spain)
10.00-10.20
The changing role of albumin in the management of patients with cirrhosis and bacterial infections: from plasma expander to immuneregulator and anti-inflammatory agent
R. Mookerjee, (London, U.K)
10.20-10.40
Discussion 10.40-10.50
Conclusions 10.50-11.00
P. Angeli (Padova, Italy)