Liver heart axis

 This webinar will be on May 20th, 2025 (17:00 CET)

The liver and the heart can be influenced by each other due to different diseases. This webinar is structured into three parts:

-Part one is about heart and lung diseases/complications caused by the Liver.

-Part two is the other way around about liver diseases.

-Part three is about the special aspects that need to be considered when liver or heart transplantation or even combined transplantation is planned for a child with additional heart or respective liver disease.

Speakers:

-PD Dr.med. Norman Junge (pediatric hepatologist, Hannover, Germany). Division for Paediatric Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Paediatric Kidney, Liver and Metabolic Diseases, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
-Dr Juliet Emamaullee (transplant surgeon, Los Angeles, USA). Division of Clinical Research (USC), Division of Abdominal Organ Transplantation (CHLA), Department of Surgery, Keck Medicine of USC/Children’s Hospital-Los Angeles.
-Dr Friederike Löffler (cardiologist, EMAH, Hannover, Germany). Department of Cardiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.

Learning outcomes: After attending this webinar participants will have improved their understanding of Liver Heart interaction and will be able to identify and treat these complex diseases. Furthermore, they will able to evaluate the indication of combined heart liver transplant.

Accreditation: “The Liver heart axis, 2025-05-20, Spain has been accredited by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME®) with 0.5 European CME credits (ECMEC®s). Each medical specialist should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the educational activity.”

“Through an agreement between the Union Européenne des Médecins Spécialistes and the American Medical Association, physicians may convert EACCME® credits to an equivalent number of AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Information on the process to convert EACCME® credit to AMA credit can be found at https://edhub.ama-assn.org/pages/applications“

“Live educational activities, occurring outside of Canada, recognised by the UEMS-EACCME® for ECMEC®s are deemed to be Accredited Group Learning Activities (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.”