BASL Winter Meeting and Liver Course

13:00 – 13:30 Registration

13:30  - 17:00 General Hepatology Course

13:30 – 15:00 Session 1
Moderator: Wim Verlinden

1. Alcohol use disorder treatments – Peter Stärkel (UCL), Helena Degroote (VUB) and Guillaume Henin (yBASL, UCL)
2. Practical approach to hyperferritinemia – David Cassiman (KUL), Thomas Vanwolleghem (UZA) and Lukas Van Melkebeke (yBASL, KUL)
    

15:00 – 15:15: Coffee break

15:15 – 17:00: Session 2
Moderator: Odile Warling

1. Drug-induced liver injury – Benedicte Delire (UCL), Wim Verlinden (Vitaz) and Alexander Dumarey (yBASL, KUL and VUB)

08:30 – 09:00: Registration

09:00 – 10.15: Session 1: Hepatology update
Moderators: Eric Trepo and Lander Heyerick

1. Mechanisms of portal hypertension and implications in patient care – Dominique Valla (Paris)
2. Update in hepatic encephalopathy – Dominique Thabut (Paris)

10:15 – 10:45: Coffee break

10:45 – 12.00: Session 2: Non-interactive discussion of clinical cases
Moderators: Filip Janssens and Zaina Issa

12:00 - 12:15 Presentations of BASL YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARDS LAUREATES 2026 and short presentation by 2025 Laureates (Pierre Deltenre)

12:15 – 12:30 BASL awards for the best clinical and basic publications 2025 (Pierre Deltenre)

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 – 15:30: Session 3: Portal hypertension: news from the Baveno VIII meeting (part 1 – cirrhosis)
Moderators: Thomas Vanwolleghem and Guillaume Henin

1. Update in portal hypertension-related bleeding – Wim Laleman (Leuven)
2. Controlled expansion of small-diameter TIPS devices in cirrhosis: targeting the right pressure gradient for the right patient at the right time – Pierre Deltenre (Saint-Luc Bouge and HUB)
3. Cirrhosis recompensation and prevention of further decompensation – Christophe Moreno (HUB)
    

15:30 – 16:00: Coffee break

16:00 – 17:00: Session 4: Portal hypertension: news from the Baveno VIII meeting (part 2 – vascular liver diseases)
Moderators: Pierre Deltenre and Lukas Van Melkebeke

1. Interventional procedures in vascular liver diseases – Alban Denys (Lausanne)