20 WORLD GASTROENTEROLOGY NEWS MAY 2017 Editorial | Expert Point of View | WCOG at ACG 2017 | WDHD News | WGO & WGOF News | WGO Global Guidelines | Calendar of Events Reflecting on a Highly Successful UEG Week 2016 With a comprehensive range of capti-vating new research and over 13,800 onsite and online participants from 116 countries in attendance, UEG Week 2016 in Vienna was a huge suc-cess in advancing the path of world-class digestive health research and is now recognised as one of Europe’s top five medical congresses. 2016, which included advancements in inflammatory bowel disease and celiac disease, as well as highlights of the best scientific abstracts submit-ted to the congress. These included research from Sean Bennet outlining how gut microbial profiles could help to predict patient responsiveness to a low-FODMAP diet, offering new hope for the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome. Sean Bennet Sarah Bohndiek With participants tuning in to UEG Week Live from all over the world, UEG Week 2016 in Vienna truly lived up to its motto; ‘advancing science, linking people’. Detlef Schuppan The Opening Session provided a superb overview of the most excit-ing developments in gastroenterol-ogy, endoscopy and hepatology in A new advancement in gastro-intestinal cancer imaging was also presented by Sarah Bohndiek during the Opening Session. The technique involves using a standard endoscopy system with a novel set of camera filters, increasing the number of colors that can be visualised during endosco-py from three to over 50. This exciting approach, developing the capabilities of hyperspectral imaging, could help improving the ability to detect abnor-mal cells in the lining of the gut. One of the most popular topics during the congress, presented by De-tlef Schuppan, focused on non-celiac gluten sensitivity. Here, amylase-tryp-sin inhibitors – a group of proteins found in wheat – were shown to ac-tivate an immune response in the gut that can then spread to other tissues in
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