Patients with HIV and hepatitis who face certain death without a liver transplant. Centers that perform transplants in HIV patients will report their clinical results. Transplants using split livers or living donors will be the subject of several abstracts and presentations. Selected presenters will be available in the press room at specific times, noted below. Following is the schedule of topics and presenters for each day.
All times are Eastern.
Too few organs. Ronald Busuttil, M.D., Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles, symposium co-chair. Leads one of the most active liver transplant programs and as president of the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, has recently advocated greater use of split livers. Koichi Tanaka, M.D. , Kyoto University, Japan, symposium co-chair. Until this year, Japan has relied exclusively on living donors.