Session 4

 

Sunday, September 3
8:00 – 10:00 am

Room 18

 

 

Young investigators Special Session

Current and future perspectives in the management of esophageal disorders

 

Chairs: Junichi Akiyama (Japan) – Ellen Stein (USA)

Discussants: Edoardo V. Savarino (Italy) – Sergei Domrachev (Russia)

 

GERD

• Current status of GERD in East Asia, comparison with the West. Myong Ki Baeg (Korea)
• Pathophysiology of nocturnal gastroesophageal reflux. Shiko Kuribayashi (Japan)
• Gastroesophageal reflux in patients with cystic fibrosis. Elen Valitova (Russia)
• The role of functional disorders in GERD. Nicola De Bortoli (Italy)
• Efficacy of Vonoprazan, a novel P-CAB, in refractory GERD. Junichi Akiyama (Japan)
  
  

Motility

• Relationship between gastroparesis and esophageal motility disorders. Katerina P. Shetler (USA)
• The role of esophago-gastric junction contractile strength in assessing GERD and in verifying surgical outcomes. Salvatore Tolone (Italy)
• How HRM may help to identify GERD patients. Edoardo V. Savarino (Italy)
• Tertiary experience with pharyngeal manometry – the role of pharynx in esophageal dysmotility.
  Ellen Stein (USA)

 

Surgery / Endoscopy

• The rising use of stents for benign esophageal perforations. Farhood Farjah (USA)
• Totally laparoscopic transhiatal esophagectomy for adenocarcinoma of the esophagogastric junction: indications, technical aspects and results compared to open access. Flavio R. Takeda (Brazil)
• Esophageal anastomotic techniques after esophagectomy for cancer. Lucas Goense (Netherlands)
• Esophageal replacement method in patients with previous operations on stomach.
  Mikhail Koshkin (Russia)
• The surgical anatomy of the thoracic duct at the diaphragm level.
  Alicia Borggreve (Netherlands)

 

Key Note Lecture

• The changing fields of esophagology: key updates from the past decades and speculations as to the future. John O. Clarke (USA)