Thursday, September 26th

13:30 – 14:00

🍹 Welcome cocktail

14:00 – 15:30

📢 Liver pathology (1)
Outpatient management of cirrhosis: back tobasics

  1. Review pathophysiology of portal hypertension
  2. Ascites
  3. Hepatic Encephalopathy
  4. Esophageal Varices
  5. Malnutrition screening and management in cirrhosis

Use of vasoactive drugs and intravenous albumin in cirrhosis.

  1. Variceal hemorrhage
  2. Ascites and Spontaneous bacterial peritonitis
  3. Acute kidney injury and Hepatorenal syndrome

15:30 – 16:00

📢 Pharma Symposium

16:00 – 16:15

☕Coffee break

16:15 – 17:45

📢 Liver pathology (2)
Hepatocellular carcinoma

  1. HCC screening and surveillance
  2. Diagnosis and staging
  3. Multidisciplinary care

Intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma

  1. Diagnosis and staging
  2. Treatment and assessing recurrence

17:45 – 18:15

📢 Pharma Symposium

18:15 – 18:30

🎤 Official opening

18:30 – 19:30

🍹Evening cocktail

Friday, September 27th

08:30 – 10:30

📢 Scientific session: Eso-gastric pathology (1)
Gastro-esophageal jonction landmarks.

  1. The endoscopist’s perspective
  2. The surgeon’s perspective

 

Gastroesophageal reflux, Hiatal hernia.

  1. The endoscopist’s perspective
  2. The surgeon’s perspective
  3. Upper gastrointestinal bleeding
  4. Approach to spontaneous and iatrogenic oesophageal perforations: when and how to intervene?

15:30 – 16:00

📢 PHARMA SESSIONS

16:00 – 16:15

☕Coffee break

16:15 – 17:45

📢 Scientific session: Eso-gastric pathology (2)
Tumors of the GE junction and stomach

  1. Diagnosis and staging
  2. Types of resections and anastomoses in stomach pathology
  3. Palliative management of luminal obstruction and other complications (bleeding, perforations, fistula, etc.)
  4. Diagnosis and management of post-surgery complications (stenoses, fistulas)

 

Gastric subepithelial lesions (with a focus on gastric GIST)

13:00 – 13:30

📢 Pharma Symposium

13:30 – 14:30

🥗 Lunch

14:30 – 16.00

📢 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

  1. Diagnosis and drainage of extrahepatic stricture (benign and malignant) + considerations for the indeterminate biliary stricture
  2. Diagnosis and drainage of extrahepatic stricture (benign and malignant) + considerations for the indeterminate biliary stricture

16:00 – 16:30

📢 Pharma Symposium

16:30 – 16:45

☕Coffee break

16:30 – 16:45

📢 Scientific session: Bilio-pancreatic pathology (2)
• Acute Pancreatitis Session

  1. Management of Acute Pancreatitis

 

• Cystic Pancreatic Lesions Session

• Pancreatic Cancer Session

  1. Diagnosis, staging and risk assessment
  2. Management of local and locoregional disease
  3. Management of advanced disease

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

10:30 – 11:00

📢 Pharma Symposium

11:00 – 11:15

☕Coffee break

11:15 – 13:00

📢 Scientific session: Colorectal pathology (2).
IBD.
• The role of biomarkers for the management of ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease
• Colitis Couture: $tyling Treatment for the UC Patient of 2024
• Crohn’s Couture: $tyling Treatment for the CD Patient of 2024
• TBD

13:00 – 13:30

📢 Pharma Symposium

13:30 – 14:30

🥗 Lunch

14:30 – 16.00

📢 State of the art: Surgery

14:50 – 15:10

📢 State of the art: Gastroenterology

15:10 – 16:30

🥇 Interregional work-shop: The Great Friendlympics.

17:00 – 17:15

🎤 Official closing

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