Thursday / May 18th 2023
15:15 – 16:15
Management of colorectal polyps
Chairs: Alberto Murino and Tomislav Bokun
Systematic classification of colorectal lesions / Neven Barsic
Colonic polyps: choose right technique and resect / Samo Plut
Image and video session / Barsic and Plut
16:15 – 16:45
Coffee break
17:30 – 19:00
Management of GI bleeding
Chairs: Ian Gralnek and Neven Barsic
Management of Upper GI bleeding
– Nonvariceal / Ian Gralnek
– Variceal / Tomas Hucl
Management of Lower GI bleeding / Mostafa Ibrahim
Management of occult GI bleeding / Alberto Murino
Image and video session / Gralnek, Hucl, Ibrahim and Murino
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
- 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? / Bobby Zhao Sheng Lo and Petra Cacic
- 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
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 - How to prevent post-ERCP pancreatitis / Istvan Hritz and Ante Bogut
- EUS-guided liver biopsy / Tajana Pavic and Valentina
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: 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 - How to prevent post-ERCP pancreatitis / Istvan Hritz and Ante Bogut
- EUS-guided liver biopsy / Tajana Pavic and Valentina
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
- 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
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
11:00 – 13:00
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
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
11:30 – 13:30
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
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 endoscopy (Workshop)
12:00 – 12:30
Closing of the Conference