UEG Ultrasound Learning Area

ULTRASOUND LEARNING AREA – PROGRAMME

Saturday 8 October 2022
Ultrasonography for the Gastroenterologist

The Ultrasound Learning Area promotes the role of a major diagnostic and interventional tool in
gastroenterology: clinical ultrasonography in the hands of the gastroenterologist.
This year the Ultrasound Learning Area returns to the on–site format and offers basic and
postgraduate courses on ultrasonography, individual hands–on training and special lectures in
abdominal ultrasonography. The programme is designed for both young and senior
gastroenterologists, with or without experience in ultrasonography.
Main topics of the special lectures are the role of ultrasound in liver diseases and interventional
ultrasound.
The Ultrasound Learning Area is run in cooperation with EFSUMB.

Course Directors:
Alina Popescu, Timişoara, Romania
Christian Jenssen, Strausberg–Wriezen, Germany

Faculty
Dieter Nürnberg, Neuruppin, Germany
Ioan Sporea, Timişoara, Romania
Odd Helge Gilja, Bergen, Norway
Roxana Şirli, Timişoara, Romania
Thomas Müller, Wiesbaden, Germany
Kim Nylund, Bergen, Norway
Adrian Săftoiu, Romania
Zeno Spârchez, Cluj Napoca, Romania
Maria Nürnberg, Neuruppin, Germany

Basic Course – Part I – Basics and introduction in abdominal ultrasound examinations

• 9:00 – 10:30 Session 1
  Moderation: Christian Jenssen, Alina Popescu
• 09:00 – 09:10 Introduction and aims of the course
  Christian Jenssen
• 09:10 – 09:25 The view in the body – examination technique and Sonoanatomy
  Alina Popescu
• 09:25 – 09:40 Abdominal vessels – landmarks
  Dieter Nürnberg
• 09:40 – 09:50 Abdominal ultrasound examination (tips and tricks) – live demonstration
  Christian Jenssen
• 09:50 – 10:30 Hands–on Training: Focus abdominal vessels
  Faculty
• 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break

• 11:00 – 12:30 Session 2
  Moderation: Dieter Nürnberg, Ioan Sporea
• 11:00 – 11:15 Examination of the liver
  Ioan Sporea
• 11:15 – 11:30 Examination of the gall bladder and bile ducts
  Roxana Şirli
• 11:30 – 11:45 Examination of the pancreas
  Christian Jenssen
• 11:45 – 12:30 Hands–on Training: Focus on liver, biliary system and pancreas
  Faculty
• 12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break
  
  
• 13:30 – 15:00 Session 3
  Moderation: Kim Nylund, Thomas Müller
• 13:30 – 13:45 How to adjust the ultrasound image and useful artefacts
  Christian Jenssen (or Stefan Uebel)
• 13:45 – 14:00 Where to check for free fluid and gas in the abdomen?
  Thomas Müller
• 14:00 – 14:15 Are the other abdominal organs important for the gastroenterologist? How we
  examine the kidneys, spleen, pelvis
  Dieter Nürnberg
• 14:15 – 14:30 Ultrasound of the Thorax – what a gastroenterologist should know
  Zeno Spârchez
• 14:30 – 15:00 Hands–on Training
  Faculty
• 15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
  
  
• 15:30 – 17:00 Session 4
  Moderation: Dieter Nürnberg, Alina Popescu
• 15:30 – 15:50 First look at stomach and bowel – typical positions
  Kim Nylund
• 15:50 – 16:00 Closing remarks for the first day. Certificates.
  Alina Popescu, Dieter Nürnberg
• 16:00 – 17:00 Hands–on Training
  Faculty

Sunday 9 October 2022
Ultrasonography for the Gastroenterologist

Advanced Course – Part II – Pathology and special topics in abdominal ultrasound
examinations

• 8:00 – 9:30 Session 1: Gallbladder and bile ducts
  Moderation: Christian Jenssen, Thomas Müller
• 08:00 – 08:05 Introduction and aims of the course
  Roxana Şirli
• 08:05 – 08:20 Incidental findings
  Christian Jenssen
• 08:20 – 08:35 Obstructive jaundice: levels and causes of obstruction
  Thomas Müller
• 08:35 – 08:50 Acute biliary diseases
  Roxana Şirli
• 08:50 – 09:30 Hands–on Training: Gallbladder and biliary system
  Faculty
• 9:30 – 10:00 Coffee break 

• 10:00 – 11:30 Session 2: Pancreas
  Moderation: Dieter Nürnberg, Roxana Şirli
• 10:00 – 10:15 Acute pancreatitis: US–based algorithm, complications
  Dieter Nürnberg
• 10:15 – 10:30 Chronic pancreatitis: US and EUS
  Adrian Săftoiu
• 10:30 – 10:45 Pancreatic tumors: diagnosis, staging, resectability
  Christian Jenssen
• 10:45 – 10:55 Abdominal ultrasound examination (tips and tricks) – live demonstration
  Odd Helge Gilja/Thomas Müller/Dieter Nürnberg
• 10:55 – 11:30 Hands–on Training: Pancreas and portal system
  Faculty
• 11:30 – 12:00 Lunch break
  
  
• 12:00 – 13:00 Session 3: Liver
  Moderation: Ioan Sporea, Alina Popescu
• 12:00 – 12:15 Parenchymal liver diseases
  Ioan Sporea
• 12:15 – 12:30 Vascular liver disease; TIPS
  Zeno Sparchez
• 12:30 – 12:45 Focal liver lesions
  Alina Popescu
• 12:45 – 13:00 Hands–on Training: Focus on the liver
  Faculty
• 13.00 – 13.30 Break
• 13.30 – 14.30 Opening Plenary Session of UEG Week
• 14:30 – 15:00 Coffee break
  
• 15:00 – 16:00 Session 4: GI tract
  Moderation: Odd Helge Gilja, Adrian Săftoiu
  
• 15:00 – 15:15 Inflammatory bowel diseases
  Odd Helge Gilja
  
• 15:15 – 15:30 Non–IBD inflammatory bowel diseases; ischemic colitis
  Kim Nylund
  
• 15:30 – 15:45 GI tract tumors: US and EUS
  Adrian Săftoiu
  
• 15:45 – 16:00 Hands–on Training: Focus on bowel
  Faculty
  
  
• 16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break
  
  
• 16:30 – 17:30 Session 5
  Moderation: Christian Jenssen, Dieter Nürnberg
  
• 16:30 – 16:55 Interesting cases – (video demonstration)
  Faculty
  
• 16:55 – 17:00 Closing remarks, certificates
  Christian Jenssen, Dieter Nürnberg
  
• 17:00 – 17:30 Hands–on Training
  Faculty
  

Monday 10 October 2022

• 8:00 – 9:00 Session 1
  Hands–on Training
  Faculty
• 9:00 – 9:30 Coffee break
  
• 9:30 – 10:30 Session 2
  Hands–on Training
  Faculty
  
• 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
  
• 11:00 – 12:00 Session 3
  Hands–on Training
  Faculty
  
• 12:00 – 14:00 – Lunch break
• 13:00 – 15:00 Lunch Session
  Part III – Noon Lectures
  Multiparametric ultrasound of the liver
  Moderation: Ioan Sporea, Christian Jenssen
  
• 13:00 – 13:20 Ultrasound based techniques for the evaluation of liver steatosis
  Ioan Sporea, Romania
  
• 13:20 – 13:40 Ultrasound based techniques for the evaluation of liver fibrosis
  Alina Popescu, Romania
  
• 13.40 – 14.00 Ultrasound based techniques for the evaluation of portal hypertension
  Dieter Nürnberg, Germany
  
• 14.00 – 14.20 US–guided biopsy in parenchymal liver disease and focal liver lesions
  Thomas Müller, Germany
  
• 14.20 – 14.40 Contrast enhanced ultrasound for the evaluation of focal liver lesions
  Odd Helge Gilja, Norway (or Christian Jenssen, Germany)
  
• 14.40 – 15.00 New developments in liver ultrasound: fusion, artificial intelligence
  Adrian Săftoiu, Romania
  
• 15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
  
• 15:30 – 16:30 Session 4
  Hands–on Training
  Faculty
  
• 16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break
  
• 17:00 – 18:00 Session 5
  Hands–on Training
  Faculty
  

Tuesday 11 October 2022

• 8:00 – 9:00 Session 1
  Hands–on Training
  Faculty
• 9:00 – 9:30 Coffee break
  
• 9:30 – 10:30 Session 2
  Hands–on Training
  Faculty
  
• 10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
  
• 11:00 – 12:00 Session 3
  Hands–on Training
  Faculty
  
• 12:00 – 14:00 – Lunch break
  
• 13:00 – 15:00 Lunch session

Part IV – Noon Lectures
Interventional Ultrasound (INVUS)
Moderation: Dieter Nürnberg, Adrian Săftoiu

• 13:00 – 13:20 Impact of INVUS in Gastroenterology
  Christian Jenssen, Germany
  
• 13:20 – 13:40 Basic Principles of INVUS and Needle Guidance
  Thomas Müller, Germany
  
• 13:40 – 14:00 Ultrasound in the management of liver abscesses
  Alina Popescu, Romania
  
• 14:00 – 14:20 Biliary Interventions – a Special Field in INVUS
  Dieter Nürnberg, Germany
  
• 14:20 – 14:40 Complications in INVUS
  Zeno Spârchez, Romania
  
• 14:40 – 15:00 Pancreatic interventions – US vs. EUS
  Adrian Săftoiu, Romania