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Joint Workshop: EASL-ICA Strauss 1

Chairs:
Paolo Angeli, Italy
Mauro Bernardi, Italy

8:00 - 8:10 Introduction SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME
8:10 - 8:30 Mauro Bernardi, Italy

8:30 - 8:50 Microbiology of bacterial infections in cirrhosis; how has it
8:50 - 9:10 changed over the last years?
Pierluigi Viale, Italy
9:10 - 9:30
9:30 – 10:00 The microbiome and bacterial translocation in cirrhosis
10:00 - 10:20 Bernd Schnabl, The United States

10:20 - 10:40 Non antibiotic prophylaxis of bacterial infections in cirrhosis;
where we are and where we are going to?
10:40 - 10:50 Guadalupe Garcia-Tsao, The United States
10:50 - 11:00
Discussion

Coffee Break

New protocols of empirical antibiotic treatment of bacterial
infections in cirrhosis
Javier Fernandez, Spain

The changing role of albumin in the management of patients
with cirrhosis and bacterial infections: from plasma expander
to immuneregulator and anti-inflammatory agent
Rajeshwar Mookerjee, The United Kingdom

Discussion

Conclusions
Paolo Angeli, Italy

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