Session 27 Clinical Session 5

 

Monday, September 4
8:00 – 9:00 am

Room 15

 

 

Clinical aspects of GERD therapy

Alternative therapies for GERD

 

Chairs: Donald O. Castell (USA) – Sebastian F. Schoppmann (Austria)

Discussants: Michio Hongo (Japan) – Luigi Bonavina (Italy)

 

• What is the role mucosal impedance in GERD? Radu Tutuian (Switzerland)
• Shall we ablate patients before or after antireflux surgery? Aleksandar Simic (Serbia)
• How can we improve the diagnosis of extra-esophageal GERD? Johannes Lenglinger (Switzerland)
• Reflux and mucosal integrity? Martin Riegler (Austria)
• Alternatives for surgical sphincter augmentation – Do we go magnetic? Luigi Bonavina (Italy)
• Is endoscopic plication a way? Erwin Rieder (Austria)
• How does electric sphincter stimulation work? Richard Gursky (Brazil)
• How do we treat PPI resistant patients with significant motility disorder? The EndoStim device.
  Matthias Paireder (Austria)
• Magnetic sphincter augmentation in patients with large hiatal hernia. Jörg Zehetner (Switzerland)
• How does Sphincter Augmentation work in patients with reflux after sleeve gastrectomy?
  Thomas Horbach (Germany)
• How long shall we use PPI in reflux hypersensitivity? Decio Chinzon (Brazil)