Thursday / May 18th 2023
POSTGRADUATE COURSE: Everyday endoscopy
15:15 – 16:15
Management of colorectal polyps
16:15 – 16:45
Coffee break
16:45 – 18:30
Management of GI bleeding
- Chairs: Ian Gralnek and Neven Barsic
- Management of Upper GI bleeding
- Management of Lower GI bleeding / Mostafa Ibrahim
- Management of occult GI bleeding / Alberto Murino
- Image and video session / Gralnek, Hucl, Ibrahim and Murino
– Nonvariceal / Ian Gralnek
– Variceal / Tomas Hucl
Friday / May 19th 2023
08:00 – 09:00
Registration and opening ceremony
09:00 – 11:00
SESSION 1: Clinical gastroenterology – IBD
- Chair: Vedran Tomasic, Uri Kopylov, Gianluca Ianiro
- Precision medicine in inflammatory bowel disease: concept, progress and
challenges / Uri Kopylov - State-of-the-art: How to follow up patients with IBD? / Marko Brinar
- Postoperative Crohn’s disease recurrence: Conclusions form the 8th
ECCO Scientific Workshop / Nassim Hammoudi and Andrea Arefijev - POC IUS in the evaluation of IBD patients / Dominik Kralj and Luka Vranic
- IBD and pregnancy / Aleksandra Sokic Milutinovic and Jelena Spiric
- Microbioma and FMT in IBD patients / Ivana Tiric, Diana Tot, Gianluca
Ianiro and Selma Hodzic - IBD in the age of AI: What you need to know? / Boby Zhao Sheng Lo and Petra Cacic
Case-based learning with short up-to-date guidelines
Discussion and Questions by ECYG APP
09:00 – 10:45
PARALLEL SESSION: Hands-on (Workshop)
Perforation closure with OTSC System
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee break
11:30 – 13:30
SESSION 2: Clinical gastroenterology & GI oncology
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Chairs: Marko Zelic, Danko Mikulic, Tajana Filipec Kanizaj
Case-based learning with short up-to-date guidelines
Multidisciplinary approach for pancreatic cancer:
– When surgery? / Danko Mikulic
– When SBRT? / Damir Vucinic
– When chemotherapy? / Jasna Marusic and Ivona Jerkovic
– Conclusion / Danko Mikulic
Colorectal cancer and liver metastasis – What can we do? / Ivica Cepic
and Iva Skocilic
One Roche: We are with you every step of the way / Juraj Prejac,
Ivana Mikolasevic, Danko Mikulic
Discussion and Questions by ECYG APP
Clinical nutrition in gastroenterology
Moderator: Ivana Mikolasevic
– Parenteral nutrition in gastroenterology /
Zeljka Belosic Halle and Dinko Bekic
– Malnutrition and sarcopenia in gastroenterology / Marko Brinar and
Valentina Ratkajec
– Enteral nutrition and malabsorption / Goran Hauser and Andjela Lukic
11:30 – 13:30
PARALLEL SESSION: Hands-on endoscopy (ECYG supported by Roeya)
Chairs: Tomislav Bokun & Mostafa Ibrahim
GI Bleeding management, Polypectomy, ERCP, ESD
14:00 – 15:00
LUNCH SESSION
13:30 – 15:00
POSTER SESSION I
15:00 – 16:30
SESSION 3: Pancreato-biliary session
- Chairs: Istvan Hritz, Mostafa Ibrahim, Tomislav Bokun
State-of-the-art: Practical approach to cystic lesions of the pancreas /
Istvan Hritz
Case-based learning with short up-to-date guidelines
Approach to the patient with acute biliary pancreatitis /
Michael Fernandez and Leonardo Eusebi
(How) to drain or not to drain before pancreato-biliary surgery /
Tomas Hucl and Antonio Mestrovic
How to prevent post-ERCP pancreatitis / Istvan Hritz and Ante Bogut
EUS-guided liver biopsy / Tajana Pavic and Valentina Ratkajec
Discussion and Questions by ECYG APP
15:00 – 17:00
PARALLEL SESSION: Hands-on ultrasound (Workshop)
Ultrasound in hepatology – Session 1 (Ivica Grgurevic, Matteo Garcovich)
[15:00 – 15:20] Grey scale ultrasound in chronic liver diseases / Aleksandar Manolev
[15:20 – 15:40] How to perform liver Doppler-Basics / Milos Lalovac
[15:40 – 16:00] Core biopsy and fine needle aspiration biopsy / Felix Bende
[16:00 – 17:30] Hands-on training: B-mode ultrasound, Doppler, Liver biopsy (suction
and tru-cut techniques, porcine liver), US-guided fine needle aspiration
(phantoms) / Faculty members
16:30 – 17:00
Coffee break
17:00 – 18:30
SESSION 4: Endoscopy session
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Chairs: Ian Gralnek, Mario Tadic, Pave Markos
State-of-the-art: Management of epithelial precancerous lesions in
stomach / Pedro Pimentel-Nunes
Case-based learning with short up-to-date guidelines
Management of achalasia – Dilate or cut / Neven Barsic and Luka Sedmak
Approach to the patient with SMT detected during upper GI endoscopy /
Ioannis Papanikolaou and Evripidis Rizos
Search for neoplastic lesions in long-term IBD patients /
Zeljka Belosic-Halle and Dinko Bekic
PEG scenarios / Mario Tadic and Ivan Vukoja
Endoscopic treatment of obesity / Ian Kral
Discussion and Questions by ECYG APP
20:30
DINNER
Saturday / May 20th 2023
09:30 – 11:30
SESSION 5: Clinical hepatology
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Chairs: Katerina Klapcic, Lubomir Skladany, Paolo Montalto
State-of-the-art: NAFLD – Treatments on the Horizon / Vlad Ratziu
Case-based learning with short up-to-date guidelines
Overlap syndromes of autoimmune liver diseases – definition and therapeutic
approach / Lucija Virovic-Jukic and Sanja Stojsavljevic Shapeski
Liver disease in pregnancy – How should we manage pregnant woman
with suspected liver disease? / Jan Sperl and Mario Korak
Difficult to treat ascites – Timing for TIPS /
Lubomir Skladany and Martin Duricek
Cirrhosis and Surgery – How do we prepare these patients for surgery? /
Michael Kukla and Ivona Saric
Cirrhotic cardiomyopathy – How should we evaluate and manage? /
Nermin Salkic and Dino Hardi/Marin Samija/Nedim Selimovic
Discussion and Questions by ECYG APP
09:00 – 10:45
PARALLEL SESSION: Hands-on (Workshop)
Perforation closure with OTSC System
11:30 – 12:00
Coffee break
12:00 – 14:00
SESSION 6: Clinical care hepatology and liver transplantation
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Chairs: Matea Majerovic, Tajana Filipec Kanizaj, Patrizia Burra
State-of-the-art: Hepatic malignancies – what to transplant? /
Patrizia Burra
Case-based learning with short up-to-date guidelines
Management of patient with alcoholic hepatitis and acute-on-chronic
liver failure / Ivana Knezevic-Stromar and Hrvoje Premec
Evaluation of patient with acute liver failure /
Giacomo Germani and Sanja Dragasevic
Diagnosis and management of portal hypertension in cACLD /
Ivica Grgurevic and Frane Pastrovic
Hepato-pulmonary syndrome – When to transplant /
Pavel Trunecka and Denisa Kyselova-Erhartova
Polycystic liver disease – when and how to transplant a patient with low
MELD? / Sona Frankova and Bozena Delija
Downstaging for hepatocellular cancer – Harm or benefit? /
Tajana Filipec Kanizaj/Nikola Sobocan and Dario Hegedis
Discussion and Questions by ECYG APP
11:30 – 13:30
PARALLEL SESSION: Hands-on endoscopy (ECYG supported by Roeya)
Chairs: Tomislav Bokun & Mostafa Ibrahim
GI Bleeding management, Polypectomy, EUS FNA/FNB, ERCP, ESD
14:00 – 17:00
PARALLEL SESSION: Hands-on ultrasound (Workshop)
Ultrasound in hepatology-Session 2 (Kristian Podrug, Ivica Grgurevic)
14:00 – 14:20 What is elastography and how to perform it / Ivica Grgurevic
14:20 – 14:40 2D-SWE and p-SWE / Matteo Garcovich
14:40 – 15:00 Steatosis quantification by ultrasound / Andrej Hari
15:00 – 16:30 Hands-on training: Liver & spleen elastography (TE, p-SWE, 2D-SWE),
Liver steatosis quantification / Faculty members
14:00 – 15:00
LUNCH SESSION: Panel discussion on AI in GI endoscopy
Moderator: Ian Gralnek
Introduction to AI in GI endoscopy / Ian Gralnek
AI for the detection and diagnosis of gastric lesions / Pedro Pimentel-Nunes
Future endoscopists and AI / Henriette Heinrich
Panelists: Pedro Pimentel-Nunes, Henriette Heinrich,
Katja Grubelic-Ravic
13:30 – 15:00
POSTER SESSION II
15:00 – 15:30
Probiotics in Gastroenterology – Abela Pharm
15:30 – 17:30
SESSION 7: Functional disorders of the GI tract
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Chairs: Goran Hauser, Melanija Razov Radas, Adam Farmer
State-of-the-art: Pre/pro and antibiotics in IBS / Giovanni Marasco
Case-based learning with short up-to-date guidelines
How to manage patients with bloating and abdominal distension? /
Jordi Serra and Indira Benjak
Pain management in patients with functional bowel disorders /
Adam Farmer and Anja Radovan
Diabetic Gastroparesis / Neva Girotto and Domagoj Micetic
Discussion and Questions by ECYG APP
17:30 – 18:00
Probiotics today – where are we?
Quality of probiotics / Jean-Pol Warzee
PiLeJe Microbiota Expertise / Carolina Lacroix
15:30 – 17:30
PARALLEL SESSION: Hands-on endoscopy (ECYG supported by Roeya)
Chairs: Tomislav Bokun & Mostafa Ibrahim
GI Bleeding management, Polypectomy, EUS FNA/FNB, ERCP, ESD
20:00
Dinner
Sunday / May 21th 2023
09:30 – 11:00
SESSION 8: ORAL PRESENTATION OF BEST ABSTRACTS
09:30 – 11:30
PARALLEL SESSION: Hands-on endoscopy (Workshop)
09:30 – 11:30
PARALLEL SESSION: Hands-on ultrasound (Workshop)
12:00 – 12:30
Closing of the Conference