Sessions

 

Session 35

 

Thursday, September 3

8:00 – 10:00 am

Room: Poulenc    

Young Investigators Special Session

Evolving concepts and techniques in the management of esophageal diseases

                                                                   
Chair: Junichi Akiyama (Japan)

Discussant: Ellen Stein (USA)

 

 

DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURES

Endoscopy and other modalities

• Application of disposable ultrathin endoscopy to the esophagus and gastrointestinal system.
  Myong Ki Baeg (Korea)
• Should PET be performed routinely or selectively for initial staging of esophageal cancer?
  Farhood Farjah (USA)
  
  

Esophageal function testing

• Differences of manometric values among several high resolution manometry systems.
  Shiko Kuribayashi (Japan)
• Is the determination of esophagogastric junction vigor by high resolution manometry a useful metric in the management of GERD patients? Salvatore Tolone (Italy)
• Ineffective esophageal peristalsis in patients with and without abnormal esophageal acid exposure.                                                                                                  Katerina P. Shetler (USA)
• Provocative esophageal testing in evaluation of symptoms such as dysphagia, spasm and chest pain. What is the best practice to evoke symptoms during routine and prolonged manometry.
  Ellen Stein (USA)
• Impedance-pH testing: A Real Added Value For Gastroenterologists and Surgeons?
  Edoardo Savarino (Italy)
• Distensibility testing of the gastrointestinal tract – current and future applications.
  Christian Lottrup (Denmark)

TREATMENT OPTIONS

• The role of proton pump inhibitor therapy during endoscopic ablation therapy for Barrett's esophagus. Junichi Akiyama (Japan)
• The perspective therapeutic approach in treatment of patients with esophageal motility disorders.
  Elen Valitova (Russia)
• Results of robot-assisted minimally invasive thoraco-laparoscopic esophagectomy for upper mediastinal esophageal cancer. Sylvia Van der Horst (Netherlands)
• Is the Utrecht Pneumonia score a valid method for registering pneumonia after esophagectomy?
  Teus Weijs (Netherlands)
• Is anastomotic leakage after esophagectomy for cancer related to neoadjuvant radiation dose to the gastric fundus? Lucas Goense (Netherlands)
• Key note: Treatment of early esophageal cancer. Jan Martinek (Czech Republic)