Thursday, September 26th
13:45 – 14:15
14:15 – 15:45
📢 Scientific session: Eso-gastric pathology (1)
• Gastro-esophageal jonction landmarks.
- The endoscopist’s perspective
- The surgeon’s perspective
• Gastroesophageal reflux, Hiatal hernia.
- The endoscopist’s perspective
- The surgeon’s perspective
• Upper gastrointestinal bleeding.
• Approach to spontaneous and iatrogenic oesophageal perforations: when and how to intervene?
15:45 – 16:15
📢 Pharma Symposium
16:15 – 16:45
16:45 – 18:15
📢 Scientific session: Eso-gastric pathology (2)
• Tumors of the GE junction and stomach.
- Diagnosis and staging
- Types of resections and anastomoses in stomach pathology
- Palliative management of luminal obstruction and other complications (bleeding, perforations, fistula, etc.)
- Diagnosis and management of post-surgery complications (stenoses, fistulas)
• Gastric subepithelial lesions (with a focus on gastric GIST).
18:15 – 18:30
18:30
19:30 – 22:00
🤝Dinner
Friday, September 27th
08:30 – 10:00
📢 Scientific session: Bilio-pancreatic pathology (1)
• Difficult MBD lithiasis
• How do you treat acute cholecystitis when surgery is too risky?
• Difficult cholecystectomy
• Diagnosis and Management of Biliary Strictures
- Diagnosis and drainage of extrahepatic stricture (benign and malignant) + considerations for the indeterminate biliary stricture
- Diagnosis and drainage of perihilar stricture (benign and malignant) + considerations for the indeterminate
biliary stricture
10:00 – 10:30
📢 Pharma Symposium
10:30 – 11:00
11:00 – 12:30
📢 Scientific session: Bilio-pancreatic pathology (2)
• Acute Pancreatitis Session
- Management of Acute Pancreatitis
• Cystic Pancreatic Lesions Session
• Pancreatic Cancer Session
- Diagnosis, staging and risk assessment
- Management of local and locoregional disease
- Management of advanced disease
12:30 – 13:15
13:15 – 14:15
🥗 Lunch
14:15 – 15.45
📢 Liver pathology (1)
• Outpatient management of cirrhosis: back to basics.
- Review pathophysiology of portal hypertension
- Ascites
- Hepatic Encephalopathy
- Esophageal Varices
- Malnutrition screening and management in cirrhosis
• Use of vasoactive drugs and intravenous albumin in cirrhosis.
- Variceal hemorrhage
- Ascites and Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis
- Acute kidney injury and Hepatorenal syndrome
15:45 – 16:15
📢 Pharma Symposium
16:15 – 16:45
16:45 – 18:15
📢 Liver pathology (2)
• Hepatocellular carcinoma.
- HCC screening and surveillance
- Diagnosis and staging
- Multidisciplinary care
• Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma.
- Diagnosis and staging
- Treatment and assessing recurrence
19:30 – 22:30
🍽️ Dinner
Saturday, September 28th
08:30 – 10:00
📢 Scientific session: Colorectal pathology (1)
• Management of Patients With Acute Lower Gastrointestinal Bleeding
• Appropriate and tailored polypectomy
• TBD
10:00 – 10:30
10:30 – 11:00
11:00 – 12:30
📢 Scientific session: Colorectal pathology (2).
IBD.
• The role of biomarkers for the management of ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease
• Colitis Couture: Styling Treatment for the UC Patient of 2024
• Crohn’s Couture: Styling Treatment for the CD Patient of 2024
• TBD
12:30 – 13:15
13:15 – 14:15
🥗 Lunch
14:15 – 15.00
📢 State of the art: Surgery
📢 State of the art: Gastroenterology
15:00 – 16:15
🥇 Interregional workshop: The Great Friendlympics. Interregional work-shop.
16:15 – 16:30
🎤 Official closing
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