Live interactive surgery: POEM for achalasia in a patient with a surgical history of subtotal gastrectomy

In this key lecture, Professor Haruhiro Inoue reports his experience and series of patients describing the new technique of submucosal endoscopic tumor resection (SET) for tumors of the esophagus and cardia.

In this key lecture, Dr. Lee Swanström focuses on reoperative peroral endoscopic myotomy (POEM).

In the current era, palliative stenting has emerged as an additional tool for advanced esophageal cancer. In this lecture, Dr. Wagner Colaiacovo presents the endoscopic procedure with stents for advanced esophageal cancer.

This presentation focuses on the specific advantages of tubal surgery as compared to assisted reproductive techniques (ART).
Tubal surgery is a valid option in selected cases.
This selection is only possible through endoscopy and a precise knowledge of lesions is necessary. Three kinds of lesions have to be precisely known: pelvic adhesions and tubal lesions, either distal or proximal.
Nowadays, a special focus has to be made on subtle tubal lesions which were underestimated until recently.
Diagnosis and patient selection is a key factor and it is best achieved through transvaginal endoscopy such as fertiloscopy.
Even if today laparoscopy is the gold standard to treat tubal abnormalities, the principles of microsurgery which were defined a long time ago have to be strictly applied if one wants to get a pregnancy rate equivalent or superior to what is expected with in vitro fertilization (IVF).

Surgery is in constant evolution. In this lecture, Dr. Ponsky shows how surgery has changed during the last century in the different surgical fields. He also looks into future evolutions.

Anastomotic stenosis after upper gastrointestinal surgery results in upper gastrointestinal symptoms, such as vomiting, dysphagia, and abdominal pain or discomfort. In this lecture, Dr. Piessevaux reports the endoscopic treatment in functional, resective and bariatric surgery.

Confocal laser endomicroscopy (CLE) is a newly developed endoscopic technique that enables imaging of the mucosal layer during endoscopy at a subcellular level of resolution. In this lecture, Dr. Driffa Moussata presents the different applications of this technique in gastrointestinal endoscopy.

In this lecture, Dr. Rahmi focuses on preoperative and operative settings when performing endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR) and endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD).

In this key lecture, Dr. Brian Dunkin details the Barrett’s esophagus pathology as well as the different possible ablative procedures.