Postgraduate Teaching Programme UEGW, Paris 2007
 Saturday 27th and Sunday 28th October 2007

For confirmed speakers of the respective lectures, please see "Scientific Programme Online".

The Scientific Committee is delighted to announce that we shall be offering an enhanced postgraduate teaching experience in Paris 2007.  The usual three postgraduate courses in endoscopy, liver disease and gastroenterology will continue as before but the endoscopy and liver courses will be extended over the two-day programme.  In addition, there will be two 90 minute plenary sessions at the beginning and end of the teaching programme.  The first will cover “advances in imaging in gastrointestinal diseases”, and the second will provide an update on the management of inflammatory bowel diseases.

The programme has been developed jointly by ESGE, EASL, EAGE, ECCO, EDS, ESGAR and others. The Scientific Committee is now responsible for the coordination of the various components of the teaching programme, but the detailed programme is the responsibility of Course Directors from many of the UEGF societies, working together to produce a fully coordinated programme.  I would like to express my personal thanks to all of those involved in developing the programme and for their enthusiasm in taking this important step forward to further enhance postgraduate teaching at UEGW.  This will be an action packed two days which we hope will be an unbeatable experience in postgraduate education in gastroenterology and hepatology. 

There is one other major innovation; you now only have to make a single registration which will be a ‘passport’ for any component of the two day teaching programme.  We believe this will be a unique experience in postgraduate education in our specialty. We would hope that over a 2-3 year cycle that you will be able to receive updates in all rapidly advancing topics in clinical practice and research.

Saturday, 27 October 2007

09.00 - 09.10 h Introduction
by Michael Farthing, Chairman Scientific Committee

09.10 - 10.30 h PLENARY SESSION 1
Recent Advances in Imaging for
Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases

Course directors:
Peter Malfertheiner (Germany)
Simon Jackson (UK)

09.10 - 09.30 h
Multi-detector CT in GI imaging: The new workhorse
09.30 - 09.50 h
New horizons in the use of ultrasound for imaging the liver and GI tract
09.50 - 10.10 h
Enhanced resolution of the GI mucosa: magnification, endocytoscopy, NBI and other chromogenic methods
10.10 - 10.30 h
MR of the small bowel: A “one stop” technique for IBD assessment?

11.00 - 16.00 h PARALLEL SESSION 1
ENDOSCOPY/ESGE
Live Demonstrations via Satellite and Key Note Lectures

Course director:
Jean Francois Rey (France)

11.00 - 13.00 h
Morning Session
12.00 - 12.10 h
Keynote lecture: Update on videocapsule endoscopy

Lunch Break

14.00 - 16.00 h
Afternoon Session
15.00 - 15.10 h
Keynote lecture - GERD repair: What is remaining?

Technical director:
T. Helbert (France)

Moderators in Paris: 
Lars Aabakken (Norway)
Theo Pordon (Netherlands)
Jacques Devičre (Belgium)
Spiros P. Ladas (Greece)

Experts in Marseille: (Hospital Ambroise Parč)
Guido Costamagna (Italy)
Remi Dumas (Monaco)
Marc Giovannini (France)
John Morris (UK)
Ibrabim Mostafa (Egypt)
Miguel Munoz-Navas (Spain)
Philippe Houcke (France)

11.00 - 13.00 h PARALLEL SESSION 2
HEPATOLOGY/EASL
Portal Hypertension 1

Course directors:
Andrew K. Burroughs (UK)
Massimo Pinzani (Italy)
Jaime Bosch (Spain)

11.00 - 11.15 h
Introduction by Andrew K. Burroughs

Session A: Pathophysiology
11.15 - 11.40 h
Fibrogenesis and angiogenesis in chronic liver diseases
11.40 - 12.05 h
Haemodynamic changes during the progression of fibrosis

Session B: Monitoring in Portal Hypertension
12.05 - 12.30 h
Non invasive and minimally invasive monitoring of portal hypertension and its complications: Is it feasible?
12.30 - 13.00 h
HVPG Monitoring – is there clinical applicability and its reduction proven as surrogate marker?

11.00 - 16.15 h PARALLEL SESSION 3
GASTROENTEROLOGY/EAGE WITH OTHER SOCIETIES
What the Gastroenterologist should know about Pain

Course directors:
Jean-Paul Galmiche (France)
Peter Malfertheiner (Germany)

Morning Session:
11.00 - 11.30 h
Neurophysiology of visceral pain
11.30 - 12.00 h
Pharmacological concepts
12.00 - 12.30 h
Uncommon causes of abdominal pain

Lunch Break

Afternoon Session:
13.30 - 14.00 h
Non-cardiac chest pain
14.00 - 14.30 h
Management of pain in functional disorders
14.30 - 15.00 h
Pain in perineal disorders

Coffee Break

15.15 - 15.45 h
Management of pain in childhood
15.45 - 16.15 h
Management of refractory pain

Sunday, 28 October 2007

08.30 - 13.00 h PARALLEL SESSION 4
ENDOSCOPY/ESGE
Endoscopic Advances in Stenting and IBD

Course director:
Jean Francois Rey (France)

Inflammatory bowel diseases and digestive endoscopy
08.30 - 09.00 h
New endosopic trends in Crohn`s disease
09.00 - 09.30 h
New endoscopic trends in ulcerative colitis
09.30 - 10.00 h
Stricture dilatation
10.00 - 10.30 h
General discussion

Coffee Break

Digestive stenting
11.00 - 11.30 h
Update on technical possibilities of
endoscopic stents
11.30 - 12.00 h
Indications for and results of digestive stenting
12.00 - 12.30 h
Indications for and results of biliary pancreatic stenting
12.30 - 13.00 h
General discussion

09.00 - 12.30 h PARALLEL SESSION 5
HEPATOLOGY/EASL
Portal Hypertension 2

Course directors:
Andrew K. Burroughs (UK)
Massimo Pinzani (Italy)
Jaime Bosch (Spain)

Session C: Prophylactic Therapy
09.00 - 09.25 h
Pre- primary and primary prophylaxis
09.25 - 09.50 h
Secondary prophylaxis
09.50 - 10.15 h
Acute bleeding, infection and general management

Coffee Break

Session D: Therapy for Complications
10.45 - 11.10 h
Acute bleeding and management of failures
11.10 - 11.35 h
Therapy of ascites and spontaneous bacterial peritonitis
11.35 - 12.00 h
Management of renal failure in cirrhosis
12.00 - 12.30 h
What still needs to be answered?

08.30 - 12.30 h PARALLEL SESSION 6
GASTROENTEROLOGY/EAGE WITH OTHER SOCIETIES
Intractable Disorders of the Digestive System

Course directors:
Jean-Paul Galmiche (France)
Peter Malfertheiner (Germany)

08.30 - 09.00 h
PPI non responsive heartburn
09.00 - 09.30 h
Intractable eructation and hiccups
09.30 - 10.00 h
How to deal with intractable dyspepsia
10.00 - 10.30 h
How to deal with intestinal gas

Coffee Break

11.00 - 11.30 h
Intractable diarrhoea
11.30 - 12.00 h
Intractable constipation
12.00 - 12.30 h
Intractable perineal fistula

14.00 - 16.00 h PLENARY SESSION 2
Translational Research in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases - the Multidisciplinary Approach to IBD

Course director:
Walter Reinisch (Austria)

14.30 - 14.40 h
Introduction
14.40 - 15.00 h
Current therapy in CD: The road from
steroids to biotherapy
15.00 - 15.20 h
Current therapy in UC: Optimizing
maintenance treatment in UC
15.20 - 15.40 h
Imaging in IBD: From minimal standards
to virtual reality
15.40 - 16.00 h
Is surgery the ultimate option in IBD?