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7th, 8th, 9th Feb 2025, Aurika Skycity, Mumbai, India

7th, 8th, 9th Feb 2025 Aurika Skycity , Mumbai, India

Program

Day 1, 7 Feb-APASL STC (Hall-A)
Day 1, 7 Feb-APASL STC (Hall-B)
Day 2, 8 Feb-APASL STC (Hall-A)
Day 2, 8 Feb-APASL STC (Hall-B)
Day 2, 8 Feb-BUILD 3.0 (Hall-A)
Day 3, 9 Feb-BUILD 3.0 (Hall-A)
Day 3, 9 Feb-BUILD 3.0 (Hall-B)
Time(Hrs) Topics Speaker/Moderator Panelist Chairperson
SESSION I: MASH/MAFLD Cirrhosis
9:00 - 9:20 The liver-heart axis interplay in MASH cirrhosis: Current understanding and targets for therapy Jacob George K T Shenoy, Lorance Peter, Sanjay Chandnani, K S Somasekhar Rao, Loya Rutwik Anil
9:20 - 9:35 Targeting mechanisms of cell death(apoptosis, necroptosis, pyroptosis and ferroptosis) in MASH/MAFLD Puneet Puri - do -
9:35 - 9:50 Neuro-cognitive decline in MASLD: Hepatologist’s perspective and implications for management Ajay Duseja - do -
9:50 - 10:00 Question & Answer - do -
SESSION II - A. Rarely Discussed Hepatology
10:00 - 10:20 Panel Discussion: Drug – drug interactions in hepatology wards & ICU Ajay Kumar Narendra Choudhary, Vinit Shah, Ameet Mandot, Charles Panackel, Prakash Jiandani
10:20 - 10:35 Pharmacotherapy, reversibility and monitoring response to therapy in PoPH Mark Muthiah Pravin Rathi, Deepak Lahoti, Ramesh Satarkar, Molina Khanna, Mahesh Mangulkar
10:35 - 10:50 Recent advances in therapeutics of alcoholic cirrhosis: Drugs, Genes and beyond ? Ashwani Singal - do -
10:50 - 11:05 Pitfalls in diagnosis of TTP and HLH in critically ill liver disease patients Dharmesh Kapoor - do -
Tea & Coffee Break (20 Minutes)
SESSION II - B. Rarely Discussed Hepatology
11:25 - 11:40 Assessment of concomitant non-liver alcohol syndromes in patients with ALD and their impact on outcomes Madunil Niriella Anoop Saraya, C R Panda, Aditya Kale, Pradeepta K Sethy, Mukund Virpariya
11:40 - 11:55 Recent advances in management of hepatobiliary parasitic disorders Necati Ormeci - do -
11:55 - 12:15 Expert Chat and wrap-up of the Session I, II-A & II-B Patrick Kamath & Akash Shukla - do -
SESSION III: Portal HT
12:15 - 12:30 Clinical decision making in pre-emptive TIPS : Setting the goal post and the boundaries Virginia Hernández-Gea Aravind Gubbi, Bhaskar Nandi, Sanjay Salunkhe, Rahul Jain, S Kumaragurubaran
12:30 - 12:45 Chylous ascites in DCLD: pathophysiology & current and emerging therapeutics (including post transplant and post surgery) Ashish Goel - do -
12:45 - 13:00 Reversibility of portal hypertension: Newer strategies Norifumi Kawada - do -
13:00 - 13:15 Case Based Discussion: TIPS, BRTO or both in recurrent variceal bleed Akash Shukla - do -
13:15 - 13:30 Experts chat & discussion Dominique Valla & Yogesh Chawla - do -
Lunch Break with E-POSTER Presentations of Best Selected Abstracts (1 Hour)
SESSION IV: Critical Care Hepatology - End points in critical care
14:30 - 14:50 Case-snippets based Panel Discussion: Role of Lactates, ammonia, base excess etc in day to day ICU management of liver diseases Bindu Mulakavalupil Sanjiv Saigal, Joy Varghese, Ankita Singh, Jeetendra Chaudhary, Priteema Chanana
14:50 - 15:10 Use of albumin in the ICU: The yeahs and the nays Shiv Sarin Parimal Lawate, Manoj K Sahu, Mukta Bapat, Kapil Sharma, Sudhiranjan Dash
15:10 - 15:25 Indications to terminate CRRT with improvement and worsening of patient? Rakhi Maiwall - do -
15:25 - 15:30 Question & Answer
SESSION V: Critical Care Hepatology - End points in critical care
15:30 - 15:45 PLEX in ICU: challenges, contraindications, futility and when to terminate? C E Eapen Sandeep Pandey, Vinay Thorat, Itha Srivenu, Manjurhusen Aghariya, Pankaj Rane
15:45 - 16:00 Assessment and the choice of vasoconstrictors in critically ill cirhotics Vaishali Solao - do -
16:00 - 16:15 Early diagnosis of vasoconstrictor non-responder: definitions, tools and implications Madhumita Premkumar - do -
16:15 - 16:30 Expert wrap-up of Session IV & V Julia Wendon & Rajender Reddy - do -
Tea & Coffee Break ( 30 Minutes )
SESSION VI
17:00 - 17:20 Coagulopathy management for elective and emergency surgeries in cirrhosis Patrick Northup Jeevan L Gheedle, Shivaram P Singh, Saiprasad Lad, Jayant N Barve, Prasanna Shah
17:20 - 17:35 Special filters in liver disease: Current evidence and what is on the horizon? Mehul S Shah - do -
17:35 - 17:55 Principles and indications of liver assist devices: what we have and what are we lacking ? Julia Wendon - do -
17:55 - 18:10 Multiomic algorithms in ICU: Bench to bedside Jaswinder S Maras - do -
18:10 - 18:20 Experts chat & discussion Ashwani Singal & Dong Joon Kim - do -
Day 1, Hall A Session Ends
DINNER SYMPOSIUM (Venue: THEATRE HALL)
18:30 - 18:45 Biopsy in Hepatocellular carcinoma Kaushal Madan Priyesh Patel, Sujay Kulkarni, Rahul Jadhav, Sameer Gaggar, Viral Vyas
18:45 - 19:00 Staging systems in HCC: Do we need further refinement? Prashant Bhangui - do -
19:00 - 19:30 Case based Panel Discussion: Unresectable HCC Sewanti Limaye A S Soin, Vashishth Maniar, Pritam Kataria, Darshit Shah, Soumil Vyas, Swapnil Dhampalwar
Time(Hrs) Topics Speaker/Moderator Panelist Chairperson
Round Table Meeting on Albumin in Cirrhosis
12:30 - 13:00 Albumin in Cirrhosis Rakhi Maiwall Gunjan Joshi, Tushar Madke, Rekha Bhatkande, Ravi Daswani, Sunny Bherwani, Bharat B Gupta
Parallel Session - Endohepatology Workshop: How I do it?
Session 1: Porto-systemic Collateral Management
14:30 - 14:40 Endoscopic variceal band ligation Meghraj Ingle Nitin Borse, Abhiram Paranjpe, Arvind Namdeo, Amey Sonavane, Jatin Agrawal
14:40 - 14:55 Glue in esophageal and gastric varices Sridhar Sundaram - do -
14:55 - 15:10 EUS guided coil and glue for gastric varices Ankit Dalal - do -
15:10 - 15:20 Endoscopic management of duodenal, rectal and stomal varices Shamsher S Chauhan - do -
15:20 - 15:30 SEMS in AVB To be confirmed - do -
15:30 - 15:50 Expert chat and Q&A Ajay Kumar & Mathew Philip - do -
Session 2: Biliary and other Diagnostic/Therapeutic Procedures in Liver Diseases
15:50 - 16:05 Coagulation management prior to endoscopic therapeutic procedures in liver diseases Patrick Northup Sanjeev Khanna, Ashok Mohite, Rahul Gupta, Soham Doshi
16:05 - 16:17 ERCP in liver diseases Mohan Ramchandani - do -
16:17 - 16:29 Cholangioscopy Amol Bapaye - do -
16:29 - 16:41 ERCP for portal biliopathy Vivek A Saraswat - do -
Tea & Coffee Break (10 mins)
16:51 - 17:03 EUS guided liver biopsy Biswa Ranjan Patra C C Chaubal, Gaurav Patil, Ashmeet Choudhury, Dhaval Choksi, Gajendra Odedra
17:03 - 17:15 EUS Portal pressure measurement Cosmas Lesmana Rinaldi - do -
17:15 - 17:30 Endoscopic bariatric interventions Amit Maydeo - do -
17:30 - 17:50 Experts chat & wrap-up of the Session Amit Maydeo & Naresh Bhat - do -
Session 3: Other diagnostic and therapeutic procedures (Liver-IR interface) - What a hepatologist/gastroenterologist should know?
17:50 - 18:05 BRTO/PARTO/CARTO Rahul Seth J B Dilawari, Shobna Bhatia, Deepika Kedia, Piyush Ranjan, Deepak Gupta
18:05 - 18:17 Hepatic venous pressure gradient Virginea Hernandes-Gea - do -
18:17 - 18:29 Transjugular liver biopsy Dhaval Thakkar - do -
18:29 - 18:44 Hepatology-IR communication — Science, art and more Mathew Philip - do -
18:44 - 19:00 Experts chat & wrap-up of the Session Rahul Seth & Praveer Rai - do -
A Musical Evening with Sairam Iyer 8 PM Onwards | HALL A (EKAARA)
Time(Hrs) Topics Speaker/Moderator Panelist Chairperson
SESSION VII - ACLF
8:00 - 8:15 Case snippets based panel discussion: ACLF- 2&3 now out of ICU Ashok Choudhury & Amit Gupte N Murugan, Rajender Reddy, Souveek Mitra, Asisha Jeneela, L Venkatakrishnan
8:15 - 8:30 Improving transplant free survivals in end stage liver disease Patrick Kamath Vinod K Dixit, Siva Prasad A V, B V Tantry, Tanmay Vajpai, Mayank Kabrawala
8:30 - 8:45 Gut Microbiome report to prognosticate liver diseases: When to ask for and how to interpret? Ki Tae Suk - do -
8:45 - 8:50 Question & Answer
Session VIII - Liver Regeneration
8:50 - 9:10 Concept of regenerative hepatology and current status of Stem cells, hepatocyte transplant, BAL, bioengineered mass Shiv Sarin S P Misra, B Ramesh Kumar, K R Palaniswamy, Harshal Ghadikar, Ravi Rathi
9:10 - 9:25 Role of gut microbiota in liver regeneration in ALF and after hepatectomy: Similarities, differences and potential for intervention Ki Tae Suk - do -
9:25 - 9:45 Evolving therapies for cirrhosis through remodeling and/or liver regeneration Detlef Schuppan - do -
9:45 - 10:00 Expert chat & wrap-up of session VII & VIII Abraham Koshy, Ravi Mohanka - do -
Tea & Coffee Break (30 mins)
Session IX - Quality of life & Palliative care Issues
10:30 - 10:45 Newly diagnosed decompensated cirrhosis in geriatric (more than 80 years) population: Unique issues and Solutions Sombat Treeprasertsuk Manisha Dwivedi, Nitin Pai, Prashant Buch, Virendra Singh, Bhagwan S Thakur
10:45 - 11:00 Ethical and moral dilemmas in management of end stage liver disease Dominique Valla - do -
11:00 - 11:15 Management of morbidly obese advanced cirrhotic: Challanges & solutions Puneet Puri - do -
11:15 - 11:20 Question & Answer - do -
Session X
11:20 - 11:40 Case snippets based panel discussion: Ignored symptoms in liver disease cramps, insomnia, fatigue, erectile dysfunction, etc. Manoj K Sharma Sagnik Biswas, Pathik Parikh, Vinay Kumar, Siddharth Harindranath, Nitish Patwardhan
11:40 - 11:55 Improving end of life care in terminal liver diseases Pankaj Puri Sheetal Mahajani, Viral Patrawala, Devendra Singh, Lalit Shimpi, Vikas Pandey
11:55 - 12:10 Approach to Recurrent fever in a advanced cirrhosis Neeraj Saraf - do -
12:10 - 12:15 Question & Answer - do -
Session XI
12:15 - 12:35 APASL Guidelines on QOL and Palliative care in advanced liver disease Dong Joon Kim Sanjay Kumar, Venkatakrishnan Iyer, Dhiraj Bhattad, Prathibha Pagar, Tehsin Petiwala
12:35 - 12:50 Management of mycobacterial infections in presence of advanced liver disease Dinesh Jothimani - do -
12:50 - 13:05 Case based discussion: White shadows on X-ray chest: A clinical dilemma Rahul Pandit Lalit Nihal, Arindam Kar, Susheel Bindroo, Bhujang Pai, Pramod Kumar
13:05 - 13:15 Question & Answer
Lunch Break (45 mins)
Session XII - HCC
14:00 - 14:15 Choosing the right systemic therapy in uHCC: Real world evidence and beyond? Akash Shukla Chetan Bhatt, Mrunmaya Panda, Shiran Shetty, Subhash Agal, P K Agarwal
14:15 - 14:30 Combination of different therapies: Can they really improve the outcome? Neeraj Saraf - do -
Session XII - HCC
14:30 - 14:50 Case based panel discussion: A 7cm HCC with VP2 PVTT and CTP A5 compensated cirrhosis and PHT: Treatment options- Resection/TARE/Immuno/SBRT/Transplant Ashish Kumar Rahul Sheth, Viniyendra Pamecha, Karan Kumar, Arun Valsan
14:50 - 15:00 Therapeutic options for oligometastasis in HCC Naveen Ganjoo M G Srinivas, R S Arun, Shaesta Mehta, Sushant K Sethi, Shankaran Krishnan
15:00 - 15:10 Radiomics and Radiogenomics in HCC: Is the future here? Akash Roy - do -
15:10 - 15:25 Portal hypertension in HCC: its implications B C Sharma - do -
APASL STC Valedictory function & Closing remarks
Time(Hrs) Topics Speaker/Moderator Panelist Chairperson
APASL THINK TANK
8:00 - 9:00 APASL Think Tank Session: An Open Forum Shiv Sarin & Akash Shukla
Parallel Symposium: Infections in Cirrhosis
SESSION I
9:00 - 9:20 APASL Guidelines for management of ESLD with infections Sombat Treeprasertsuk Bhooshan Pandit, Rajeev Hingorani, Vedant Karvir, Swapnil Walke, Raghu Satyanarayan
SESSION II
9:20 - 9:35 Vaccinations in cirrhosis: Which ones, how to administer and efficacy Mithra Prasad Abhishek Sadalage, Subhash Nandwani, Aabha Nagral, Sunil Jain, Vaibhav Shah, Aniruddha Gopanpallikar
9:35 - 9:50 Rapid diagnostics (bio fires, BCID, Multiplex PCR etc) in cirrhosis: where to use and how? Parikshit Prayag - do -
9:50 - 10:05 Accuracy and fallacies of other non-culture tests in diagnosis of bacterial and fungal infections in advanced cirrhosis Preeti Pillai - do -
10:05 - 10:15 Question & Answer
Tea & Coffee Break (10 mins)
SESSION III
10:25 - 10:40 How to predict the likely organism in a patient with sepsis in presence of liver disease Vasant Nagvekar Ajay Choksi, Mehul Choksi, Raju Kanakia, Manoj Lahoti, Praveen K Jha
10:40 - 10:55 Assessing response to antibiotic therapy in patients with advanced liver diseases in ICU Sachin Palnitkar - do -
10:55 - 11:10 Emerging infections: New pathogens and changing susceptibility patterns Sunil Taneja - do -
SESSION IV
11:10 - 11:40 Panel discussion: Management strategies for drug resistant organisms in cirrhosis Vasant Nagvekar Parikshit Prayag, Preeti Pillai, Kirti Sabnis, Tushar Parmar, Pavan Hanchanale
11:40 - 11:55 Question & Answer
Fibroscan Workshop
12:00-12:20 Application of LSM and SSM in clinical practice: A Panel Discussion Amit Gupte Abhinav Jain, Manish Manrai, Dhiraj Agarwal, Santosh Hajare, Ravi Daswani Amit Gharat, Gaurav Bachhav, Harish Soni, Chaiti Gandhi, Varun Gupta
12:20-12:40 Pitfalls in measuring LSM with Fibroscan Mihir Vora Saransh Jain, Samir Parikh, Michael Kuruthukulangara, Adarsh C K, Prashant Bhandarkar Jayesh Soni, Kingshuk Dhar, Manish Jain, Himanshu Patel, Praful Kamani
RESIDENT'S CORNER
12:45-13:15 Free Chatting about Utilization of Residency to enhance One's Career Kailash Kolhe, Shamsher S Chauhan, Vipul S Chaudhari, Rahul Jadhav, Deepti Vishwanathan, Swapnil Walke
Time(Hrs) Topics Speaker/Moderator Panelist Chairperson
SESSION I
15:30 - 15:45 Glucose metabolism in a steatotic liver: Implications for management Jacob George Govind Makharia, Samir Shah, Sujeet Jahagirdar, Vipul Sunil Chaudhari, Preeti Chhabria
15:45 - 16:00 Pharmacological management of obesity in 2025 Ajay Duseja - do -
16:00 - 16:20 State of the Art Lecture: Wheat, Gluten and ATIs in Health & Disease Detlef Schuppan - do -
16:20 - 16:30 Question & Answer - do -
SESSION II
16:30 - 16:50 Case based discussion: Acute hepatitis with cholestasis & history of CAM in a young adult; Is it AIH, Wilsons Disease with CAM-DILI or seronegative hepatitis Harshad Devarbhavi P N Rao, B C Sharma, Prateik Poddar, Naveen Ganjoo, Preetam Nath
16:50 - 17:30 Debate: Liberalization of indications for treatment of HBV infection is the best way forward For: Anil Arora Against: Rakesh Agarwal Judges: Subrat K Acharya, Anil C Anand Saroj K Sinha, Ubal Dhus, Shyam S Sharma, Manish Bhatnagar, Nitin Ramani
Tea & Coffee Break (15 mins)
SESSION III
17:45 - 18:05 Case based Panel discussion: Refractory ascites with AKI-HRS on proteinuric CKD Mrudul Dharod Nipun Verma, Sunil Dadhich, Ajay Jain, Norifumi Kawada, Rushi Deshpande
18:05 - 18:20 Genetic Cholestatic disorders in Children & Adults Anshu Srivastava P Shravan Kumar, Atul Shende, Chirag Shah, Preetham Hurkadli, Rahul Savalia
18:20 - 18:35 EUS guided ablation of Liver tumors: Basics, tips and outcomes Cosmas Rinaldi Lesmana - do -
18:35 - 18:45 Question & Answer
SESSION IV
18:45 - 19:05 Liver transplant: What every Gastroenterologist should know? Ravi Mohanka Chetan Kantharia, Gaurav Gupta, Amit Gupte, Mihir Vora, Prashant Kadam, Vijay Dhakre
19:05 - 19:25 Setting up liver transplant in tier 2 cities: Challenges & Opportunities Ravindra V Karanjekar Mehul Panchal, Rakesh Jain, Dharmesh Dhanani, Dhaval Mangukia, Prashant M V, Pravin Agrawal
Felicitation & Award Ceremony ( 1 Hour )
GALA DINNER | 20:30 Hrs Onwards
Time(Hrs) Topics Speaker/Moderator Panelist Chairperson
Morning Session with Dr Rahul Seth
7:30 - 8:30 Free Chat on IR procedures in Portal Hypertension and HCC Rahul Seth Hrushikesh Chaudhary, Manish Dodhmani, Mayur Dave, Hitesh Dudhe, Nimish Shah
SESSION V - Legends Speak
9:00 - 9:30 5 Papers published in field of medicine in the last decade that will change how we live in the future Shiv Sarin Experts: Detlef Schuppen, K. Rajender Reddy Sunil Shah, Fersosh Mistry, Pankaj Dhawan, Raghuram Kondala, Avval Sadikot
9:30 - 10:00 BUILD 2.0 Oration - “Current and future directions in management of acute liver failure” Julia Wendon Ramesh Roop Rai, Satish Kulkarni, Prabha Sawant, Arun Vaidya
10:00 - 10:20 Panel Discussion - Confusion around the nomenclature : NCPF/PSVD/NRH/INCPH Akash Shukla Shiv Sarin, Dominique Valla, Patrick Kamath, Patrick Northup, Virginea Hernandes-Gea
Tea & Coffee Break (20 mins)
Session VI - Legends Speak
10:40 - 11:10 BUILD 3.0 Oration: Immune Dysfunction and its management in Cirrhosis K. Rajender Reddy Rajiv Mehta, Sandeep Nijhawan, Debabrata Banerjee, Divya Gopal, Harikumar Nair
11:10 - 11:30 Case based Panel Discussion- ACLF: ALD with acute HEV and rhabdomyolysis Bindu Mulakavalupil Praveen Sharma, Gaurav Pandey, Shalimar, Cosmas Rinaldi Lesmana, Kaushal Madan
11:30 - 11:50 Recent advances in the prognostication and management strategies in alcoholic liver diseases Ashwani Singal Aniruddha Phadke, Rajesh Dharamsi, Rakesh Patel, Tariq Patel, Udaysinh Patil
11:50 - 12:10 Anticoagulation usage in patients with cirrhosis Patrick Northup Philip Abraham, Aruna Bhave, Nutan Desai, Saifee Plumber, Geeta Billa
Session VII - B D Pimparkar Oration
12:10 - 12:40 How to prognosticate patients with advanced liver disease: More than just score ! Patrick Kamath Jay Bhatt, Kaushal Vyas, Smit Vaghasia, Kailash Kohle, Ravindra Surude
Session VIII - Lunch Symposium
12:40 - 13:10 Recent advances in management of HCC and biliary tract cancers Arndt Vogel Rajesh Dharamsi, Prashant Buch, Ashish Sethi, Tejas Modi, N H Banka, Ruchit Patel
13:10 - 13:40 Case Based Discussions: Adverse events in Immunotherapy Mrudul Dharod Anil C Anand, Ashok Choudhury, Nipun Verma, Arndt Vogel
BUILD 3.0 Valedictory function & Closing remarks
Time(Hrs) Topics Speaker/Moderator Panelist Chairperson
HCC Workshop
7:00 - 7:20 Radiological Diagnostics in HCC Abhijit Raut Hussain Bohri , Shubham Jain, Dipen Agarwal, Sachin Gupta, Saumil Shah, Apurva Shah
7:20 - 7:40 Serum Biomarkers Pritam Kataria Arun Iyer, Samir Patil, Suresh Zinzuwadia, Aashay Abhay Shah
7:40 - 8:00 Staging & Choice of therapies Shraddha Patkar Shashwat Sarin, Kaivan Shailesh Shah, Dhaval Gupta, Aradya Venu, Virendra Chaudhary
8:00 - 8:20 Monitoring on Immunotherapies Arndt Vogel Rajiv Kumar Bansal, Renu Bharne, Manish Agarwal, Paras Shah, Vinay Zanwar
8:20 - 8:40 Discussion
Session begins in HALL A ( 9:00 Hrs )

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