In this episode of Bowel Sounds, hosts Drs. Amber Hildreth and Jennifer Lee talk to Dr. Elizabeth Rand, a pediatric gastroenterologist in the Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), Medical Director of CHOP's Liver Transplant Program, Director of the Gastroenterology Fellowship Program and Director of the Advanced Transplant Hepatology Program. We talk everything about Fontan Associated Liver Disease (FALD), from diagnosis to management and future research opportunities in the field.

Learning objectives

Describe the pathophysiology of FALD
Understand the management challenges in patients with FALD
Explore the unanswered questions about FALD to help guide future research priorities

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Single-cell multiomics guided mechanistic understanding of Fontan-associated liver disease

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