Dr. Raj Mookerjee, Reader in Medicine and Consultant Hepatologist, Institute for Liver and Digestive Health, UCL, & Royal Free London

Vascular Dysfunction in Acute-on-Chronic Liver Failure and novel therapeutic approaches

Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) is associated with a rapid deterioration in clinical state, multi-organ dysfunction and high mortality. A loss of the haemodynamic compensation noted in advancing liver disease accounts for some of the evolving organ dysfunction in ACLF and remains an unmet therapeutic need. A need for increasing liver and critical organ blood flow will be discussed and novel therapeutic targets to address this.    

The lecture is part of the PhD School Nanoscience meets Hepatology, but the lecture is open to all interested.

Host: Associate Professor Brigitte Städler, iNANO & Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University