Endo Live Roma - Guido Costamagna, MD

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31 WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS NOVEMBER 2016 Editorial | Expert Point of View | Gastro 2016: EGHS-WGO | WDHD News | WGO & WGOF News | WGO Global Guidelines | Calendar of Events Endo Live Roma The 2016 edition of the International Workshop on GI Endoscopy “Endo Live Roma” which took place on May 11-13 was once again a huge success in many aspects: - 575 attendees (including 75 nurs-es) from 42 countries worldwide - 44 members of faculty - 118 industry representatives - 30 industry partners - more than 40 live cases carried out in 3 days (all patients who under-went procedures during the live demonstrations were discharged without any complications). The 3-day live demonstration mara-thon presented the most recent tech-niques of diagnostic and therapeutic digestive endoscopy spaced out by state-of-the-art lectures, a live debate on “GERD and the difficult patient”, a mini-symposium on “Endotherapy of morbid obesity and diabetes”, a tandem lecture on “EUS-guided therapies” and satellite symposiums for the industry offering the audience demonstrations and detailed explana-tions on new techniques and endo-scopic devices. The first day was exclu-sively dedicated to “Colonoscopy and Colorectal Endoscopic Resections” to emphasize critical aspects related to colonoscopy and update the audience on recent developments in the identi-fication, evaluation and treatment of colorectal neoplastic lesions. Worldwide experts and rising stars of the GI Endoscopy firmament were again part of the faculty of this new edition of the workshop. They contributed with their knowledge and inventiveness to make the live endos-copy sessions remarkable, instructive and stimulating, focusing on the real hot-topics of GI Endoscopy, includ-ing: ERCP, peroral cholangioscopy and pancreatoscopy, endoluminal radiotherapy and treatment of pancre-atic cysts, management of gastrointes-tinal bleeding, Endoscopic Mucosal Resection and Submucosal Dissection, radiofrequency ablation of Barrett’s Esophagus, Peroral Endoscopic My-otomy (POEM) for the management of achalasia, endoscopic cricophar-ingeal miotomy for Zenker diver-ticulum, diagnostic and therapeutic device assisted enteroscopy, confocal endomicroscopy, and the most recent innovations in diagnostic and inter-ventional endoscopic ultrasound. In addition to the technical aspects, a methodological presentation was made, for all the live cases presented, of the decision-making prior, dur-ing and after the procedure on the diagnosis and treatment of the cases considered in close cooperation with the latest technical innovations and solutions provided the biomedical industries. Guido Costamagna, MD Course Director Head, Digestive Endoscopy Unit Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A. Gemelli Catholic University, Rome, Italy Plenary discussion with the experts on the patients treated Auditorium of Catholic University


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