Editorial - Message from the Editors of e-WGN - J. Enrique Domínguez-Muñoz, MD - Christina M. Surawicz, MD, MACG

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WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS Official e-newsletter of the World Gastroenterology Organisation VOL. 19, ISSUE 2 JULY 2014 In this issue www.worldgastroenterology.org Message from the Editors of e-WGN J. Enrique Domínguez-Muñoz, MD Director of the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology University Hospital of Santiago de Compostela Santiago de Compostela, Spain Is it possible you have not heard of the increasing interest in the role of the colonic microbiome in health and disease? The term microbiome is now the correct term that has replaced the outdated term “fecal flora”. Interest in this area is literally exploding in the last few years, with the advent of new technology to study this and the recognition of the role of the microbiome in diseases such as recurrent Clostridium difficile infection and the possible role in other GI disease including Inflammatory Bowel Disease and Irritable Bowel Syndrome among others. This year Gut Microbes was even the 2014 World Digestive Health Day (WDHD) cam-paign theme. We are thus fortunate to have the new multi-authored publication on this topic in the WGO Handbook on Gut Microbes assembled by Dr. Francisco Guarner; this issue contains updates from leaders in the field from all around the world, and is a comprehensive and up to date guide for clinicians. In this issue we also provide summa-ries of some of the WDHD educational programs in India, Pakistan, Ireland and Poland. The Polish program even man-aged to bring in Alfred Hitchcock movies in their synopsis! Moreover we have an update by Fran-cisco Guarner and Virginia Robles-Alonso on Gut Microbes, initially published in the October 2012 issue of e-WGN. Just the fact that an update is done within two years tells you how rapidly this field is advancing. We also feature a summary of clini-cal research conducted in China: The article, Is Fecal Microbiota Transplantation Through the Mid-Gut a Rescue Therapy for Refractory IBD? by Faming Zhang. It describes an uncontrolled clinical trial of patients in China with refractory IBD who have been treated with FMT (what we used to call “stool transplant”) with exciting results. We await results of Is Fecal Microbiota Transplantation Through the Mid-Gut a Rescue Therapy for Refractory IBD? Faming Zhang, MD, PhD Gut Microbes Virginia Robles-Alonso, MD Francisco Guarner, MD New WGO Member Society: Society of Pediatrics Gastroenterologists and Dietician of Uzbekistan Altinoy Kamilova, MD Christina M. Surawicz, MD, MACG Professor of Medicine Division of Gastroenterology Department of Medicine University of Washington School of Medicine Seattle, USA


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