The Romanian-Italian Gastroenterology Meeting
09 – 11 March 2023 | Grand Hotel Napoca, Cluj-Napoca
Thursday, 09 March 2023
10.00 INTRODUCTION
Session 1: NEUROGASTROENTEROLOGY 1
Chairs: Vasile DRUG, Enrico CORAZZIARI
10.20 – 10.40 Investigations in functional dyspepsia – update
Vasile DRUG, Vadim ROȘCA, Oana BĂRBOI (Iași)
10.40 – 11.00 What changes Chicago.4.0 in esophageal high-resolution manometry?
Teodora SURDEA-BLAGA (Cluj-Napoca)
11.00 – 11.20 Mucosal protective agents in treating esophageal and dyspeptic symptoms
Enrico CORAZZIARI (Rome)
11.20 – 11.30 Satellite Symposium BIESSEN PHARMA
Session 2: NEUROGASTROENTEROLOGY 2
Chairs: Marcel TANȚĂU, Massimo BELLINI
11.30 – 11.50 New therapeutic approaches in upper digestive motility disorders
Marcel TANȚĂU (Cluj-Napoca)
11.50 – 12.10 Bile acid diarrhea
Massimo BELLINI (Pisa)
12.10 – 12.25 Challenges in capsule endoscopy
Lidia MUNTEAN (Cluj-Napoca)
12.25 – 12.40 Meditation, a soft touch in the treatment of irritable bowel syndrome
Cristian BABOȘ (Cluj-Napoca)
12.40 – 13.00 Satellite Symposium SANOFI SPECIALTY CARE
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch Break
Session 3: HOT TOPICS 1
Chairs: Zeno SPÂRCHEZ, Paul J. PORR
14.00 – 14.15 Liver biopsy in hepatocellular carcinoma. The gateway to precision medicine
Zeno SPÂRCHEZ (Cluj-Napoca)
14.15 – 14.30 Current guidelines in the management of celiac disease
Alexandra LOOR CORUJAN (Cluj-Napoca)
14.30 – 14.45 Microbiota and metabolic diseases
Paul J. PORR (Sibiu)
14.45 – 15.00 Microbiota: a new therapeutic target in NAFLD
Dana CRIȘAN (Cluj-Napoca)
15.00 – 15.15 Satellite Symposium VEDRA International
Session 4: LIVER 1
Chairs: Ludovico ABENAVOLI, Laurențiu NEDELCU, Luca MIELE
15.15 – 15.35 Mediterranean diet in NAFLD
Ludovico ABENAVOLI (Catanzaro)
15.35 – 15.55 Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) as Model of Gut-Liver Axis Interaction
Luca MIELE (Rome)
15.55 – 16.15 Alcohol-Associated Hepatitis
Laurențiu NEDELCU (Brașov)
16.15 – 16.35 Depression and chronic liver diseases
Mihaela FADGYAS-STĂNCULETE (Cluj-Napoca)
16.35 – 16.50 Liver fat and subclinical hepatic dysfunction by 13C-methacetin breath-test
Agostino Di CIAULA (Bari)
16.50 – 17.00 Coffee Break & Medical Exhibition
OPENING CEREMONY
17.00 – 17.10 Greetings
17.10 – 17.25 Italian physicians in Romania
Dana BARAN (Iași)
17.25 – 17.35 The beginnings of our symposia
Carol STANCIU (Iași)
17.35 – 17.50 Romanian-Italian cooperation in gastroenterology
Dan L. DUMITRAȘCU (Cluj-Napoca)
17.50 – 18.10 Greetings from Italian participants
Piero PORTINCASA (Bari)
18.10 – 20.00 Welcome reception
Friday, 10 March 2023
Session 5: AGE AND GENDER PARTICULARITIES IN GASTROENTEROLOGY AND NUTRITION
Chairs: Gabriel PRADA, Gabriella GARRUTI, Mario BARBAGALLO
09.00 – 09.20 Nutrition and Vitamin B12 deficitiency in elderly
Gabriel PRADA (București)
09.20 – 09.40 Malnutrition in the elderly
Mario BARBAGALLO (Palermo)
09.40 – 10.00 Endocrine Disruptors and Gut Microbiome Interactions: a Gender perspective
Gabriella GARRUTI (Bari)
10.00 – 10.20 Gender differences in gastrointestinal disorders
Leonilde BONFRATE (Bari)
Session 6: DIVERTICULAR DISEASE
Chairs: Antonio TURSI, Simona BĂȚAGĂ, Giovanni BRADIMANTE
10.20 – 10.40 DICA classification of diverticular disease
Antonio TURSI (Andria)
10.40 – 10.55 Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha levels in Diverticular Disease – Systematic Review and Meta-analysis
Cristina Maria SABO (Cluj-Napoca)
10.55 – 11.15 The management of symptomatic diverticular disease
Giovanni BRADIMARTE (Rome)
11.15 – 11.30 Satellite Symposium ALFA SIGMA
Gut Microbiota Modulation to Prevent Hepatic Encephalopathy in Liver Cirrhosis
11.30 – 11.40 Coffee Break & Medical Exhibition
Session 7: COLOPOCTOLOGY
Chairs: Giuseppe CHIARIONI, Adrian GOLDIȘ, Walter ELISEI
11.40 – 12.00 New therapies for IBD
Walter ELISEI (Rome)
12.00 – 12.20 Possible challenges in diagnosing and treating IBD patient
Adrian GOLDIȘ, Mariana MALCZYK, Ramona GOLDIȘ (Timișoara)
12.20 – 12.35 The management of bloating
Simona GRAD (Cluj-Napoca)
12.35 – 12.50 The importance of psychological factors in individualizing the treatment in IBD
Cristina POJOGA (Cluj-Napoca)
12.50 – 13.10 Pelvic floor disorders
Giuseppe CHIARIONI (Verona)
13.10 – 14.00 Lunch Break
Session 8: HOT TOPICS 2
Chairs: Francesco Di MARIO, Alina TANȚĂU, Carmelo SCARPIGNATO
14.00 – 14.20 The burning mouth syndrome for gastroenterologists
Francesco Di MARIO (Parma)
14.20 – 14.40 GERD and Other Acid-related Diseases: How to Address Unmet Clinical Needs
Carmelo SCARPIGNATO (Parma)
14.40 – 15.00 Endoscopy and EUS for diagnosis and staging of early rectal cancer
Alina TANȚĂU (Cluj-Napoca)
15.00 – 15.20 Colic serrated polyps
Simona BĂȚAGĂ (Tg. Mureș)
15.20 – 15.40 The effect of diet on gut microbiota
Emanuele RINNINELLA (Rome)
15.40 – 16.00 Satellite Symposium RECKITT
16.00 – 16.10 Coffee Break & Medical Exhibition
Session 9: LIVER AND PANCREAS
Chairs: Piero PORTINCASA, Anca TRIFAN, Andrada SEICEAN
16.10 – 16.30 Shifting the paradigm: NAFLD, MAFLD, MNAFLD and beyond
Piero PORTINCASA (Bari)
16.30 – 16.50 The fight for elimination HCV in Eastern Romania
Anca TRIFAN, Carol STANCIU (Iași)
16.50 – 17.05 Ultrasonography and CEUS. Curent applications liver diseases
Radu BADEA (Cluj-Napoca)
17.05 – 17.25 Therapeutic endosonography in pancreatic tumours
Andrada SEICEAN (Cluj-Napoca)
17.25 – 17.40 HCC screening and surveillance in the era of multiparametric ultrasound
Horea ȘTEFĂNESCU (Cluj-Napoca)
17.40 – 17.55 Hepatitis E, an emerging issue in daily practice
Roxana ȘIRLI (Timișoara)
17.55 – 18.10 Portal vein thrombosis – frequent issues in clinical practice
Bogdan PROCOPEȚ (Cluj-Napoca)
18.10 – 18.20 Coffee Break & Medical Exhibition
Session 10: LIVER 2
Chairs: Monica ACALOVSCHI, Ioan SPOREA, Laszlo HERSZENYI
18.20 – 18.35 Non-invasive assessment in alcoholic liver disease
Alina POPESCU (Timișoara)
18.35 – 18.55 Epidemiology of the combined hepatocellular carcinoma–intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma (cHCC–CCA)
Monica ACALOVSCHI (Cluj-Napoca)
18.55 – 19.15 Ultrasound – the best method to screen MAFLD patients
Ioan SPOREA (Timișoara)
19.15 – 19.30 From the Mediterranean basin: NAFLD perception and lifestyle in a free-living Lebanese cohort
Mohammad KHALIL (Bari)
19.30 – 19.50 Gastroprotection in patients on antithrombotic therapy – are we doing everything perfectly?
Laszlo HERSZENYI (Budapest, Parma)
19.50 – 20.00 CLOSING CEREMONY