Program 2023

Registration and opening ceremony 

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

Case-based learning with short up-to-date guidelines

• 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

Discussion and Questions by ECYG APP

PARALLEL SESSION: Hands-on (Workshop) 
Perforation closure with OTSC System

Coffee break

SESSION 2: Clinical gastroenterology & GI oncology 

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

PARALLEL SESSION: Hands-on endoscopy (ECYG supported by Roeya)  
Chairs: Tomislav Bokun & Mostafa Ibrahim
GI Bleeding management, Polypectomy, ERCP, ESD

LUNCH SESSION   

POSTER SESSION I   

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

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

Coffee break

SESSION 4: Endoscopy session 

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

DINNER   

SESSION 5: Clinical hepatology 

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

PARALLEL SESSION: Hands-on (Workshop) 
Perforation closure with OTSC System

Coffee break  

SESSION 6: Clinical care hepatology and liver transplantation 

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

PARALLEL SESSION: Hands-on endoscopy (ECYG supported by Roeya) 
Chairs: Tomislav Bokun & Mostafa Ibrahim
GI Bleeding management, Polypectomy, EUS FNA/FNB, ERCP, ESD

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

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

POSTER SESSION II  

Probiotics in Gastroenterology – Abela Pharm  

SESSION 7: Functional disorders of the GI tract

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

Probiotics today – where are we?  
Quality of probiotics / Jean-Pol Warzee
PiLeJe Microbiota Expertise / Carolina Lacroix

PARALLEL SESSION: Hands-on endoscopy (ECYG supported by Roeya) 
Chairs: Tomislav Bokun & Mostafa Ibrahim
GI Bleeding management, Polypectomy, EUS FNA/FNB, ERCP, ESD

Dinner