2024 Annual Update in Medical Hepatology
April 11, 2024
Every year, the UPMC Center for Liver Diseases holds an educational CME program to learn more about current trends, management techniques, new innovations, and research to treat a full range of liver conditions.
During this year’s conference, participants learned about advancements in non-alcoholic and alcoholic liver disease treatments, barriers to liver transplantation and living-donor liver transplantation, and more from our liver disease experts.
View the presentations here.
Session 1: Autoimmune Liver Diseases
Topics in this session include:
- Case #1 Introduction
- Update on Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis
- Update on PBC and Overlap Syndromes
- Gut Microbiome and Autoimmune Liver Disease
Session 2: Steatotic and Viral Liver Disease
Topics in this session include:
- Case #2 Introduction
- Update on Evaluation and Management of Alcohol-associated Liver Disease
- Update on Metabolic-Dysfunction Associated Steatotic Liver Disease
Breakout #1: Helping Patients Overcome Barriers to Liver Transplantation
Breakout #2: Lifestyle Modification for the Management of Liver Disease
Session 3: Cirrhosis and Its Complications
Topics in this session include:
- Case #3 Introduction
- Management of the Difficult Variceal Hemorrhage
- Advances in the Management of Hepatorenal Syndrome
- Managing Quality of Life in Patients with Advanced Cirrhosis
Session 4: Liver Transplantation
Topics in this session include:
- Case #4 Introduction
- Advances in Deceased Donor Liver Transplantation
- Innovations in Live Donor Liver Transplantation
