What you learned last year about the treatment of IBD is already out of date.
During Tuesday’s SSAT Joint Symposium with the International Society for Digestive Surgery, five experts will examine the appropriate use of minimally invasive surgery in managing cancers of the gastrointestinal tract. The two-hour morning symposium is titled Minimally Invasive Frontier in GI Surgery.
Caring for patients with IBD requires a multidisciplinary approach. So the organizers of Tuesday’s DDW® Clinical Symposium Endoscopic and Surgical Principles in IBD set out to create a multidisciplinary educational program. The 90-minute symposium is jointly sponsored by AGA, ASGE and SSAT.
International experts will discuss different approaches to IBD during pregnancy, and how recent data may affect treatment decisions during Sunday’s AGA Clinical Symposium The Pregnant Patient with IBD: Data for an International Consensus?!
Until the advent of corticosteroids and colectomy, nearly a third of inpatients with ulcerative colitis died of their disease. Even with effective treatments available, challenges remain in the medical and surgical management of these patients.
Learn all about the latest advances in IBD through a variety of scientific sessions at Digestive Disease Week® (DDW) 2017.
