The Latest News in WGO Global Guidelines and Cascades

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35 WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS MAY 2017 Editorial | Expert Point of View | WCOG at ACG 2017 | WDHD News | WGO & WGOF News | WGO Global Guidelines | Calendar of Events The Latest News in WGO Global Guidelines and Cascades Coming Soon In the near future WGO will release an update of the “Diagnosis, Manage-ment, and Prevention of Hepatitis C” guideline, which is being led by Profes-sors Muhammad Umar and Aamir G. Khan, both from Pakistan. Translation of the updated guideline into French, Mandarin, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish will soon be underway. Later This Year Work continues on the new Diet and the Gut Guideline, which is being led by Professors Govind Makharia (India) and Peter Gibson (Australia). This Guide-line complements the 2016 World Digestive Health Day campaign theme of Diet and the Gut – ‘Your Diet and Gut Health.’ Also brand new will be the Pancreas (Cystic) Lesions Guideline. Led by Pro-fessors Juan Malagelada (Spain) and Nalini Guda (USA), work on this guide-line is currently underway. As for updates of existing Guidelines, the Endoscope Disinfection Guideline, which is chaired by Professor Tony Speer (Australia) as well as the World En-doscopy Organization’s Professor Jean-Francois Rey (France) is currently being updated from its 2011 version. An updated Strongyloidiasis Guideline, under the leadership of Professor Michael Farthing (UK), is also in underway. Strongyloidiasis is an infection with Strongyloides stercoralis, a round worm occurring widely in tropical and subtropical areas. The current Guideline dates from 2004. Please continue to watch upcoming issues of e-WGN as well as our e-Alert for news on the creation of these very important guidelines. Global Guidelines & Cascades Homepage in Russian and Mandarin Don’t forget to view the Global Guidelines and Cascades homepages in Rus-sian and Mandarin on the WGO website! You may view the Russian page by visiting http://www.worldgastroenterology.org/guidelines/global-guidelines/ view-the-guidelines-in-russian or the Mandarin page at http://www.worldgas-troenterology. org/guidelines/global-guidelines/view-the-guidelines-in-mandarin


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