Posters: FRIDAY
Liver/Biliary Disorders

[085] DOES LONG-TERM MYCOPHENOLATE MOFETIL (MMF) THERAPY AFFECT ALLOGRAFT RE-INFECTION IN LIVER TRANSPLANT (OLT) RECIPIENTS WITH HEPATITIS C?
TSI Lyburn, C Sherlock¹, EM Yoshida, N Partovi², UP Steinbrecher
Department of Medicine, ¹Microbiology, ²Pharmacy, University of British Columbia and BC Transplant Society, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

[086] CONCEPTION SOON AFTER DISCONTINUING INTERFERON/RIBAVIRIN THERAPY: A CASE REPORT OF A SUCCESSFUL OUTCOME
Daniel Mishkin¹, Marc Deschênes^2
1Department of Medicine, Jewish General Hospital, ²Department of Medicine Royal Victoria Hospital, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

[087] DE NOVO ACUTE HEPATITIS B INFECTION IN A PREVIOUSLY VACCINATED LIVER TRANSPLANT RECIPIENT DUE TO AN ‘A’ DETERMINANT MUTATED STRAIN OF HBV AT MET 133 THR
A Ramji, K Gutfreund¹, S Erb, J Davis, U Steinbrecher, C Sherlock, C Scudamore, S Chung, M Williams¹, EM Yoshida
Departments of Medicine, Surgery, Microbiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, ¹University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, and BC Transplant Society, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

[088] ANTIVIRAL THERAPY IN HEPATITIS C INFECTION PROMOTED CONVERSION OF TH2 TO TH1 CYTOKINE PROFILE AND DECREASED INFLAMMATION
I Rasul, M Liu, Q Ning, J Heathcote, G Levy
Division of Gastroenterology, Toronto General Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

[089] HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA AS A COMPLICATION OF AUTOIMMUNE HEPATITIS
A Rousseau, E Deslandres
Carignan, Quebec, Canada

[090] MODERN EXPERIENCE WITH INFANTILE CHOLESTASIS. A 12 YEAR REVIEW
M Stormon, SFA Dorney, KR Kamath, EV O’Loughlin, KJ Gaskin
Department of Gastroenterology, Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children, Sydney, Australia

[091] AN UNUSUAL CAUSE OF HEPATIC ABSCESS
R Tambay, J Côté, AM Bourgault, JP Villeneuve
Division of Hepatology, Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal, Montréal,  Québec, Canada

[092] BENEFIT OF TRANSPLANTATION IN PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS BETWEEN 1985-1997
J Tinmouth¹, G Tomlinson², EJ Heathcote³, L Lilly^4
1,3,4Divison of Gastroenterology and ²Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

[093] LONG TERM SURVIVAL ANALYSIS IN C282Y HOMOZYGOTES FOR THE HEMOCHROMATOSIS GENE (HFE)
J Wojcik, M Speechley, S Chakrabarti, A Kertesz, PC Adams
Departments of Medicine, Pathology and Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada

[094] CHOLEDOCHAL CYSTS IN ADULTS: ANALYSIS OF PRESENTATION, TREATMENT AND COMPLICATIONS
CKW Wong, J Gamarra, NM Kneteman, G Lees, G Warnock, VG Bain
Departments of Medicine and Surgery, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

[095] "GRANULOMATOUS HEPATITIS"
P Wong¹, V Bain²
Divisions of Gastroenterology, ¹McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and ²University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta

[096] THE NATURAL HISTORY OF CHILDHOOD COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED CHRONIC HEPATITIS C (C-A CHC)
LTF Yeung, M Fearon¹, EA Roberts
Department of Paediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto; ¹Laboratories Branch, Ontario Ministry of Health & Long-term Care, Ontario, Canada