Latest IRCAD/EITS lectures

Professor J Deviere (Belgium)

June 2009

Morbid obesity is an increasing pathology, affecting 300 millions of people worldwide.
Laparoscopic procedures represent standard surgical treatments. In this lecture, Prof. Jacques Devière presents the technical details of transoral gastroplasty, a new endogastric procedure: the advantages, disadvantages of this technique and the first results of a pilot study in humans.

Professor S Kudo (Japan)

June 2009

The advances in colonoscopy allow the diagnosis of early-stage colorectal cancers. Magnifying colonoscopy is useful for diagnosing histologic types by assessing the microstructure of the mucosal surface in detail. This is a very telling lecture in which Prof. Kudo presents different methodologies in detecting the various types of early colorectal cancer: magnifying endoscopy, chemo-endoscopy and endocytoscopy.

Doctor M Vieth (Germany)

June 2009

Dr. Michael Vieth explains the importance of detecting colorectal lesions underlining the needs for a definition of the serrated lesions and their impact on clinical outcome.

Doctor N Yahagi (Japan)

June 2009

Endoscopic resection of tumoral lesions at an early stage is an accepted method. Among several methods of endoscopic resection, endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) has been developed to remove the lesions in an ‘en bloc’ fashion regardless of size, shape, co-existing ulcer, and location. Several knives for endoscopic submucosal dissection are available and each of them has some merits and demerits. In this lecture, Dr. Yahagi presents his experience in ESD for GI tumors using dual knife.

Doctor T Toyonaga (Japan)

June 2009

In this lecture, Dr. Toyonaga presents indications, contraindications and his experience in performing endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) with the water jet short needle knives (Flush knife), proving that a complete resection is possible with a low rate of perforation.