3rd Live Endoscopy Workshop of the Gastroenterology
and Hepatology Department
Hospital de Santa Maria – Centro Hospitalar Lisboa Norte
20th March 2015
Organizing Committee
José Velosa
Luís Carrilho Ribeiro
Luís Correia
João Lopes
Carlos Noronha Ferreira
Ana Rita Gonçalves
Achalasia, Barrett´s esophagus, submucosal lesions and cancer of the esophagus –
Practical aspects in diagnosis and management.
8:30 – 840 – Welcome address
José Velosa (Director, Gastroenterology and Hepatology Department, HSM, Lisbon)
8:40 – 9:00 – Imaging studies in diagnosis of functional pathology and stagins of esophageal
cancer.
Afonso Gonçalves (Radiology Department, HSM)
Sala A
9:00 – 12:00 Management of achalsia – POEM (Per-oral endoscopic myotomy)
Jacques Devière (Hôpital Erasme, Brussels), Pedro Barreiro (Hospital Egas Moniz, Lisbon)
Sala B
9:00 – 10:30 Confocal endomicroscopy in the evaluation of Barrett´s esophagus
Massimiliano Di Pietro (Cambridge University, United Kingdom) and Cristina Ferreira (Hospital
Santa Maria, Lisbon)
11:00 – 12:00 Ecoendosocpy in the characterization of submucosal lesion of the esophagus.
Pedro Moutinho Ribeiro (Hospital Sao Joao, Porto) e Rui Palma (Hospital Santa Maria, Lisbon)
Sala C
10:00 – 11:00 Functional evaluation of disphagia by impedance manometry.
Luís Correia (Hospital Santa Maria, Lisbon) e Mónica Velosa (Hospital Vila Franca de Xira)
Discussion panel: Luís Carrilho Ribeiro, José Paulo Freire, Isabel Seves, António Marques,
Fernando Castro Poças, Guilherme Macedo, Luís Carrilho Ribeiro, Leopoldo Matos, Narcisa
Fatela.
12:00 – 12:30 State of the art lecture
Minimally invasive surgery of the oesophagus – What results and in which patients?
Moderator: Paulo Costa (Surgery Department, Hospital Santa Maria, Lisbon)
Paul M. Schneider (University Hospital Zurich)
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:30
Sala A – Characterization of Barrett’s oesophagus by FICE
Hitoshi Shimada, Pedro Amaro (Centro Hospital Universitário, Coimbra)
Sala B – Management of Barrett’s oesophagus by endoscopic mucosal resection.
Pierre Eisendrath (Hôpital Erasme, Brussels), Miguel Serrano (IPO, Lisbon)
14:30 – 14:50 – Coffee break.
14:50 – 15:50
Sala A – Echoendoscopy in staging of esophageal cancer.
Pierre Eisendrath (Hôpital Erasme, Brussels), Inês Marques (Hospital Cascais)
Sala B – Palliation of advanced oesophageal cancer with the trough the score oesophageal
stent.
João Lopes e Ana Rita Gonçalves (Hospital Santa Maria, Lisbon)
Discussion panel: Bruno Peixe, António Dias Pereira, Rui Esteves, Jorge Canena, Catarina
Rodrigues, Ana Catarina Rego, Miguel Bispo, Elidio Barjas.
15:50 – 16:10 State of the art lecture
Barrett´s esophagus – Integrating advanced imaging methods and molecular biomarkers in
assessment of risk of esophageal cancer.
Moderator – José Cotter (Hospital de Guimaraes)
Massimiliano Di Pietro (Cambridge University, United Kingdom)
16:10 – 16:30 – Chemotherapy in esophageal cancer – Therapeutic advances and results.
Moderator – Marília Cravo (Hospital Beatriz Ângelo, Loures)
António Quintela (Hospital Santa maria, Lisbon)
16: 30 – 16:50 – Questions from the audience
16:50 – 17:00 – Closure of the Workshop
Luís Carrilho Ribeiro (Hospital Santa Maria, Lisbon)