• New diagnostic imaging in upper and lower gastrointestinal endoscopy
• Capsule enteroscopy / colonoscopy
• Enteroscopy - Balloon assisted and other techniques
• Endocytoscopy, confocal endoscopy
• Mucosal resection and submucosal dissection
• Latest technologies of hemostase and of bleeding ulcers and varices
• EUS for staging, FNA
• Dilation of gastrointestinal strictures and stenting
• Zenker’s diverticulotomy
• Peroral endoscopic myotomy for achalasia
• Endoluminal transoral surgery for morbid obesity
• NOTES
• Therapeutic ERCP
• Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy
• Therapeutic EUS – Transmural anastomoses – Pseudocysts drainage and necrosectomy
• Treatment of surgical complications (stenoses, fistulae, leakages)
• Barrett's ablation
• Percutaneous gastrostomy and jejunostomy
• Transjugular liver biopsies, TIPS
• Percutaneous transhepatic cholangiographies

The learning objectives of the course will be :

1. Evaluation of established and most recent endoscopy techniques, assessing their clinical utility in a muldisciplinary setting

2. Description of pre-therapeutic assessment and post-treatment follow up
 

3. Detailed technical teaching of various procedures
 

4. Providing scientific appraisal of technologies, evidence-based, with comparison with other approaches
 

5. Recognition of the role of endoscopy in digestive diseases and its interaction with gastroenterology,   surgery, oncology, radiology and transplantation
 

6. Teaching on prevention and treatment of complications