The First Digestive Endoscopy Symposium will be a full day postgraduate course on the recent advances of digestive endoscopy and its utility in the management of related gastrointestinal diseases. The symposium will include both lectures and video case presentations. This combination of state of the art lectures and unedited videos will provide an excellent opportunity for discussion and interaction between participants and international experts.
OBJECTIVES:
- Discuss indications, utility, safety and local applicability of the latest endoscopic techniques
- Compare and contrast methods for effective endoscopic management of digestive diseases
- Participate in an interactive discussion to evaluate multidisciplinary plans of digestive diseases management
INTENDED AUDIENCE:
The Symposium is designed for gastroenterologists, surgeons, internists, pediatricians, GPs, family practitioners, nurses, and biomedicals
TOPICS:
- Therapeutic ERCP
- Diagnostic and therapeutic EUS (FNA, pseudocyst drainage, anastomosis)
- Mucosal resection and submucosal dissection
- Capsule endoscopy
- Bariatric endoscopy
- Post-liver transplant endoscopy
- Portal hypertension-related gut bleeding
- Non-variceal GI bleeding
- Endoscopic management of Barrett’s esophagus
- Diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy in IBD
- Management of gut strictures (dilatation and stenting)
- Management of endoscopic complications (perforation, bleeding)
- Image-enhancement endoscopy
- Confocal endomicroscopy
The Symposium is Endorsed by
- The European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy