32 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 22nd United Russian Gastroenterology Week Vladimir Ivashkin, MD, PhD President of the Russian Gastroenterological Association Head of Internal Medicine Propedeutic Chair Director of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Department First Moscow Sechenov Medical University Moscow, Russia Arkady Sheptulin, MD, PhD Internal Medicine Propedeutic Chair First Moscow Sechenov Medical University Moscow, Russia 22nd United Russian Gastroenterol-ogy Week (URGW), organized by Russian Gastroenterological Associa-tion (RGA), Profile Board “Gastro-enterology” at the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation (MHRF) and Department of Medical Science Russian Academy of Science, took place October 3-5, 2016, in Mos-cow. About 4000 doctors of different specializations (gastroenterologists, endoscopists, physicians, surgeons, pathologists, clinical pharmacologists, etc.) from Russia and other countries participated in this congress. About 700 doctors attended the Postgraduate Course, which was held just before the URGW. Within the framework of the URGW 18 plenary sessions were carried out. Some were dedicated to actual problems of pathophysiology, diagnosis and therapy of gastroesopha-geal reflux disease GERD (including clinical features of its various forms, extraesophageal manifestations etc.), chronic gastritis and ulcer disease (including modern approaches to diagnosis and treatment of H. pylori About 4000 doctors of different specializations ... from Russia and other countries participated in this congress. infection), irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) (such as pathophysiological role of bowel motility abnormalities, the association of IBS and small intestinal overgrowth syndrome), inflamma-tory bowel disease, liver and biliary system diseases, chronic pancreatitis. Among the presentations there were those dedicated to the new methods of radiological diagnostics in gastro-enterology, actual pathophysiological and clinical aspects of pediatrician gastroenterology, important clinical problems of nutrition and surgical gastroenterology (particularly con-cerning gastrointestinal bleeding). There were 33 clinical symposia held which discussed such problems as criteria for choice and safety of proton pump inhibitors, advances in investiga-tion of dyspepsia syndrome, prevention of gastroduodenal damages caused by nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), modern possibilities of prophylaxis and early detection of gastric cancer (including the necessity of prompt H. pylori infection eradica-tion), the optimization of endoscopic diagnostic methods (particularly video Gastroenterology Board meeting
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