SCH Precongress Day
Immune-mediated parenchymal liver disease
Date: Wednesday 17 September
Time: 08.00 Arrival | 08.30 Start Programme
Venue: MECC Maastricht, Room 0.5
Mamximum number of participants: 150
Registration fee in person Live SCH Precongress LATE FEE (from 1st of May):
SCH member: 120 € incl 21% VAT and catering
SCH non-member: 180 € incl 21% VAT and catering
Registration Live precongress is closed!
Registration for the online precongress is closed!
SCH membership is available from €30 (1-year) €60 (3-year) on https://comparativehepatology.org/membership/ if any non-members are interested. The SCH can be reached at https://comparativehepatology.org/contact/ for any queries.
Programme
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08.00-08.30 – Arrival with coffee and tea
08.30-08.40 – Welcome by organizers
08.40-10.40 – Immune-mediated chronic hepatitis in dogs – an internist and pathologist combined lecture with case examples
oInternists – Dr Sarah Shropshire (Colorado State University, US) and Dr Tarini Ullal (UC Davis, US)
oPathologist – Dr April Choi (UC Davis, US)
10.40-11.10 – Coffee and tea break
11.10-11.25 – Nutrition for Liver Disease - Main sponsor (Hill’s) presentation
o Dr Becky Mullis (DACVIM Nutrition, Sr Manager Scientific Affairs)
11.25-12.25 – Trainee presentations (details overleaf, sponsored by Idexx)
o Dr Christina Kijan (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)
o Dr Paul Remmel (École Nationale Vétérinaire d’Alfort, France)
o Dr Francesca Fidanzio (University of Parma, Italy)
12.25-13.25 – Lunch
13.25-15.25 – Autoimmune hepatitis – the human perspective
oDr Emma Culver (Consultant Hepatologist and Senior Lecturer at the Translational Gastroenterology Unit, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK)
oDr Marco Carbone (Associate Professor of Hepatology at the University of Milano-Bicocca and Honorary Consultant Hepatologist at the Niguarda Liver Transplant Centre, Milan, Italy)
15.25-15.55 – Coffee and tea break
15.55-17.30 – Panel discussion and closing remarks
oDr Shropshire, Dr Ullal, Dr Choi, Dr Culver, Dr Carbone, and Dr Cynthia Webster (Tufts University, US)
Generously supported by Hill’s (main sponsor)
Trainee presentations
11.25 – Joint Genome-Wide Association Study Finds Unique Associated Locus for Chronic Hepatitis in the Dobermann and Labrador Retriever Dog Breeds
C. Kijan1, E.R. den Boer1, P.J.J. Mandigers1, H. Fieten1
1 Expertisecentre of Veterinary Genetics, Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
11.45 – Clinical case discussion: A case of immune-mediated granulomatous hepatitis causing portal hypertension and acquired portosystemic shunts
P. Remmel1, V. Freiche1, J.C. Husson2, G. Benchekroun1
1 École Nationale Vétérinaire d’Alfort, CHUVA, Service de médecine interne, Maisons-Alfort, France
2 Laboratoire d'Anatomie Pathologique Vétérinaire, Toulouse, France
12.05 – Ductal plate malformation with concurrent bacterial cholangiohepatitis in a 3-year-old cat
F. Fidanzio1, L. Muscatello2, M. Fumeo1, A. Corsini1
1 Department of Veterinary Science, University of Parma, Parma, Italy
2 Department of Veterinary Medical Sciences, University of Bologna, Ozzano Emilia (BO), Italy
