Detailed programme

Theoretical education with video sessions (3 days / week during 2 weeks) - 40 hours

The courses are organized from February 2024 to June 2024. Lectures will be given at UCLouvain university by a team of Belgian endosonographers and hands-on teaching will be held in Belgian academic hospitals.

 

LOCATION
  • Week 1 : CHU UCL Namur, Godinne (Week 1)
  • Week 2 : Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels (Week 2)
WEEK 1 (February, 2024)

Moderation Pierre-Henri Deprez

BASIC PRINCIPLES (Morning 8h-12h30)
  • Principles of ultrasonography, doppler, harmonic imaging (1h30)
  • EUS processors, scopes, probes (including mini-probes), 3D (1h)
  • Needles FNA-FNB (1h)
  • Optimizing EUS imaging (1h)
BASIC PRINCIPLES (Afternoon 13h30-17h30)
  • Contraindications of digestive EUS and management of complications (1h)
  • Normal anatomy in linear-array EUS (1h)
  • Normal anatomy in radial EUS (1h)
  • Ancillary techniques: Contrast Harmonic-EUS et EUS-elastography (1h)
Moderation Abdenor Badaoui
APPLICATIONS AND INDICATIONS OF BILIOPANCREATIC EUS (Morning 8h30-12h30)
  • Biliary lithiasis and benign biliary diseases (1h)
  • Malignant biliary diseases (cholangiocarcinoma and ampulloma) (1h)
  • Acute and Chronic pancreatitis (including autoimmune pancreatitis) (1h)
  • Neuroendocrine tumors (1h)
APPLICATIONS AND INDICATIONS OF BILIOPANCREATIC EUS (Afternoon 13h30-17h30)
  • Solid pancreatic lesions
    • Differential diagnosis and histopathology (1h)
    • Pancreatic adenocarcinoma: diagnostic EUS and staging (1h)
    • EUS-FNA, EUS-FNB (1h)
    • FNB Surgeon's point of view: anatomy and resectability criteria (1h)
Moderation Pierre-Henri Deprez
APPLICATIONS AND INDICATIONS OF BILIOPANCREATIC EUS (Morning 8h30-12h30)
  • Cystic pancreatic lesions
    • Differential diagnosis and histopathology (1h)
    • Technique of puncture and what to analyse? (1h)
    • EUS and EUS-FNA needles (1h)
    • EUS-guided needle-based confocal laser endomicroscopy, biopsy, molecular biology (1h)

 

WEEK 2 (June, 2024)
Moderation Abdenor Badaoui
MEDIASTINAL EXPLORATION AND UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL EUS (Morning 8h30-12h30)
  • EUS and EBUS anatomy, mediastinoscopy (1h)
  • EUS-FNA, EUS-FNB and EBUS-TBNA (1h)
  • Expectations of the onco-pulmonologist and the histopathologist (1h)
  • Subepithelial lesions (1h)
UPPER AND LOWER GASTROINTESTINAL EUS (Afternoon 13h30-17h30)
  • Staging in esophageal, cardia and gastric cancer (1h)
  • Normal anatomy of the rectum and staging of rectal tumors (1H)
  • Normal anatomy of the anal canal and staging of anal cancer (1H)
  • EUS in anorectal disorders (dyschezia, incontinence) (1H)
Moderation Pierre-Henri Deprez
THERAPEUTIC EUS (VIDEOS) - (Morning 8h30-12h30)
  • Collections drainage (1h)
  • CDS-HGS (1h)
  • Gallbladder drainage (1h)
  • Pancreatic drainage (1h)
THERAPEUTIC EUS (VIDEOS) - (Afternoon 13h30-17h30)
  • Celiac plexus neurolysis (1h)
  • Luminal anastomosis (1h)
  • Ablations (1h)
  • Fiducial, vascular access or treatment (1h)
Morning 9H-12H30
  • Handson Sessions (2H30)
  • Video Sessions (1H)

Congresses with BGDE, CFE or EGEUS (theoretical and practical part during CFE live or EGEUS live) – at least 13 hours of attendance.
Hands-on teaching in endoscopy units in different academic and hospitals – 32 hours/4 days