Liver Diseases

1. Anatomy and Embryology of the Liver.- 2. Liver Histology.- 3. Hepatic Progenitor Cells.- 4. Hepatocellular Death: Apoptosis, Autophagy, Necrosis and Necroptosis.- 5. Steatosis and inflammation in liver pathology.- 6. Molecular basis of fibrogenesis and angiogenesis during chronic liver disease: Impact of TGF-beta and VEGF on pathogenic pathways.- 7. Hepatotoxicity: Mechanisms of Liver Injury.- 8. Crosstalk of molecular signaling in hepatocellular carcinoma.- 9. Drug-Induced Liver Injury.- 10. Acquired Metabolic Disorders.- 11. Vascular Disorders of the Liver.- 12. Liver Ischaemia Reperfusion Injury.- 13. Autoimmune Hepatitis.- 14. Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis.- 15. Parasitic Diseases of the Liver.- 16. Viral Hepatitis B.- 17. Viral hepatitis C.- 18. Non-B, Non-C Viral Hepatitis.- 19. The Microbiome in Liver Diseases.- 20. Polycystic Liver Diseases.- 21. Portopulmonary Hypertension and Hepatopulmonary syndrome.- 22. HEPATIC ABSCESSES.- 23. Liver Cirrhosis.- 24. Primary Biliary Cholangitis.- 25. The Paucity of Interlobular Bile Ducts.- 26. Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: a wide spectrum disease.- 27. Alcoholic Liver Disease.- 28. Liver Disease in Pregnancy.- 29. Cirrhotic Cardiomyopathy.- 30. Benign Tumors.- 31. LIVER CANCER.- 32. Acute Liver Failure.- 33. Chronic Liver Failure and Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure.- 34. History and Physical Examination.- 35. Assessment of Liver Function.- 36. Noninvasive Biomarkers for liver fibrosis.- 37. Peritoneal Fluid Analysis.- 38. Measurement of Hepatic Venous Pressure Gradient (HVPG).- 39. Liver Biopsy for Histopathology.- 40. Abdominal Ultrasonography.- 41. Endoscopy in Hepatic Diseases.- 42. Dynamic and Multi-phase Contrast-enhanced CT Scan.- 43. Patient-specific 3D printing in Liver Disease.- 44. DYNAMIC CONTRAST-ENHANCED ULTRASONOGRAPHY OF THE LIVER.- 45. Ultrasound Elastography.- 46. MR Elastography and Functional MRI of the Liver.- 47. Dynamic Contrast-enhanced MR Imaging.- 48. Transient elastography in chronic

Florentina Radu-Ionita, MD, PhD is Consultant of Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, Associated Professor to Gastroenterology Department, Faculty of Medicine, "Titu Maiorescu" University, Bucharest, Romania and from 2014 is the Director of Central Military Emergency University Hospital "Dr. Carol Davila", Bucharest, Romania. Author and co-author of 3 books, 4 chapters in specialty books, over 280 articles and scientific works, published in Romania and abroad in specialty journals or in the brochures of scientific manifestations. Moreover, is co-author of the Patent for invention no. RO 001/2017 "Method for Obtaining Fydroxyapatite Scaffolds with Predetermined Physico-Chemical Characteristics for Major Bone Reconstruction". She is Editor-in-Chief of Romanian Journal of Military Medicine, CNCSIS C, ISSN-L1222-5126; eISSN 2501-2312; pISSN 1222-5126. She is mainly investigator and sub-investigator in over 25 international multicentric clinical studies. Associate Professor Ionita received multiple awards for his work. More important, she is supervisor in specialized training for resident doctors in gastroenterology, having numerous national universitary lectures for students and residents.

Nikolaos T. Pyrsopoulos, MD, PhD, MBA, FACP, AGAF, FAASLD, FRCP (Edin) currently serves as Professor of Medicine and Chief of Gastroenterology & Hepatology at New Jersey Medical School, Professor of Physiology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience and the Medical Director of Liver Transplantation for University Hospital. In addition, he one of the Editors in Chief for the World Journal of Hepatology and of other well-known journals in the field of Hepatology and Gastroenterology. Moreover, he has numerous publications in various scientific journals, including the Journal of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Transplantation and is one of the authors in the book devoted to the unique field of abdominal transplantation: Intestinal and Multivisceral