Endohepatology: Expanding Frontiers in Minimally Invasive Liver Care

Learning Objectives

1. Select patients and the needle and suction technique for EUS-guided liver biopsy, compared with percutaneous and transjugular approaches.

2. Interpret EUS-guided portal pressure gradient measurement, including its technique, its indications such as pre-transplant evaluation and non-cirrhotic portal hypertension, and its standard thresholds.

3. Describe the rationale, key technical steps and outcomes of EUS-guided coil and cyanoacrylate therapy for gastric varices compared with endoscopic glue injection.

Financial Support

This activity is supported by independent medical education grants from Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Inc., and Zenas BioPharma.

Target Audience

Transplant hepatologists, gastroenterologists, hepatologists, transplant surgeons, physicians, and other healthcare professionals involved in the care of patients with chronic liver disease and liver transplantation.

Credit Information

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Faculty Disclosures

Rajesh Puri, MD, DNB, has nothing to disclose.

Planning Committee Disclosures

Iman Fawzy Montasser, MD (Session Chair) has nothing to disclose.

Sanjaya Satapathy, MD, FACG, FASGE, AGAF, FAASLD, discloses the following relevant financial relationships: Advisory Board: Mirum Pharmaceuticals, Bausch Health; Research Support: Intercept Pharmaceuticals, Durect, Boehringer Ingelheim, Akero Therapeutics, Gilead Sciences, Madrigal, Zydus, Novartis, Fibronostics, CymaBay, Pfizer, Ipsen, Bausch Health; Speakers Bureau: Mirum Pharmaceuticals, Bausch Health.

Prasun K. Jalal, MD (Associate Course Director), discloses the following relevant financial relationships: Advisory Board: Ipsen, Gilead, Mirum, Bausch Health; Consultant: Madrigal; Research Support: Madrigal, Ipsen, Gilead, GSK, Bausch Health; Speakers Bureau: Madrigal, Ipsen.

Jiang Liu, MD, has nothing to disclose.

Benedict Maliakkal, MD, has nothing to disclose.

Kenan Moral has nothing to disclose.

Daniela Jones, MA, has nothing to disclose.

Content Reviewer Disclosures

Andrea Perseghin, EdD, has nothing to disclose.

*All relevant financial relationships have been mitigated.

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