25 WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS MAY 2016 Editorial | Expert Point of View | Gastro 2016: EGHS-WGO | WDHD News | WGO & WGOF News | WGO Global Guidelines | Calendar of Events Summary of the 21st VNAGE Annual Meeting Duc T. Quach, MD, PhD Vice Chair, Department of Internal Medicine Faculty of Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Hochiminh City, Vietnam Deputy Secretary General, VNAGE (On behalf of Professor Ta Long, President of VNAGE) The Vietnam Association of Gas-troenterology (VNAGE) successfully organized its 21st annual meeting in November 2015. This event is orga-nized in a different province each year so as to encourage the development of research and update knowledge in the gastroenterology community nationwide and in the host province. In 2015 the meeting was held in Nghe-An province and attracted 740 participants, including gastroenterolo-gists, general surgeons, and internists, to come and share experiences. We also celebrated the 10th Anniversary of the Vietnamese Journal of Gastroenterol-ogy at the opening ceremony. There were six scientific sessions, including gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), early gastric cancer, dysmotility, pancreatitis and hepatitis, Helicobacter pylori, and endoscopy. The three highlighted ones were about GERD, early gastric cancer, and Helicobacter pylori management in Vietnam. • GERD The GERD session was organized as an action of VNAGE to contribute to the “Heartburn Day” World Digestive Health Day event announced by the World Gastroenterology Organisation (WGO) in 2015. In this session, GERD prevalence was reported to significantly increase according to local studies over the last 15 years Participants in the Congress. in Vietnam. International faculty from the USA were invited to share their experience. In addi-tion, local faculty in cardiology and ENT were also invited to share their experience about the characteristics and management of GERD patients presenting to these subspecialties. Nonerosive reflux disease (NERD) with mini-mal change at Z line was shown to have a good correlation between reflux symptoms, conventional endoscopy, and histology (accord-ing to Ismail-Beigi classification) in Vietnamese patients, and was addressed in Vietnam for the first time. However, further studies about GERD prevalence in Viet-nam are needed. • EARLY GASTRIC CANCER The session about early gastric cancer was also organized to highlight the importance of early diagnosis and treatment of this common malignant disease in Vietnam. International faculty from Japan were invited to share their knowledge. Local case series with preliminary results of endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) were also presented. Early gastric cancer is likely to continue to be more prevalent in the near future in Vietnam. • H PYLORI The session about Helicobacter pylori management this year attracted a large audience. Five well-designed original studies about antibiotic resistance and ef- Prof. Ta Long, President of VNAGE, giving the opening speech of the Congress. ficacy of eradication regimens were
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