title: Report of the 22nd Annual Congress of the International Liver Transplantation Society.
abstract: The 2016 Annual Congress of the International Liver Transplantation Society was held in Seoul, South Korea in May. The 22nd Congress marked the largest multidisciplinary liver transplantation meeting in Asia since 2010. The principal themes were living donation, allocation, immunosuppression, machine preservation, novel treatment of hepatitis C, and expansion of the deceased-donor allograft pool. This report presents select abstracts from the scientific sessions within the context of the published literature to serve as a quick reference.
authors.affiliation: 1 University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL. 2 Mount Sinai Health System, New York, NY. 3 Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA. 4 Keio University, Tokyo, Japan. 5 Universitaria di Padova, Padova, Italy. 6 Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Evanston, IL.
authors.forename: Geraldine C
authors.initials: GC
authors.lastname: Diaz
authors.forename: Jeron
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zerillo
authors.forename: Ashish
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Singhal
authors.forename: Taizo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hibi
authors.forename: Alessandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Vitale
authors.forename: Josh
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Levitsky
authors.forename: John F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Renz
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000379:methods*; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D016031:Liver Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000379:methods*