Abstracts that have been submitted to or presented at other national or international meetings, with the exception of the AASLD Liver Meeting, may be submitted provided that prior presentation and/or submission to other meetings is declared during the DDW submission process. Late-breaking submissions, however, will not be considered if they have been or will be presented at any meeting taking place prior to DDW 2025. 

Abstracts presented at previous DDW meetings are not eligible for submission. 

Abstracts that have been submitted to DDW in previous years, but not accepted for presentation are eligible for submission. 

Abstracts will not be considered for presentation if they have been published as an article or have been accepted for publication (including manuscripts) in printed or electronic formats upon the Dec. 5 submission deadline. 

Abstracts will not be considered for presentation if they have been duplicated in any way. Abstracts may not be submitted to more than one category, subcategory or society for DDW. 

Violations of these policies could result in a five- year sanction from submitting abstracts to DDW for the submitting author.