Emerging Issues in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Asia — the new frontier for inflammatory bowel disease.- Inflammatory bowel disease: incidence and prevalence across Asia.- Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) in Asia: a comparison of phenotype and genotype with Western IBD.- Inflammatory bowel disease in Asia: response to therapy.- State-of-the-Art Lecture: Pathogenesis — why is inflammatory bowel disease increasing in Asia?.- Diagnostic challenges in Asia.- Gastrointestinal tuberculosis versus Crohn’s disease.- Diagnostic challenges in Asia: intestinal Behçet’s disease.- Serodiagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease.- State-of-the-Art Lecture: Anti-MAP therapy for Crohn’s disease — saviour or non-event?.- Key issues in the pathogenesis of Crohn’s disease.- The search for an infectious cause of Crohn’s disease.- Disturbances in microbiota — cause or effect?.- The role of defensins.- Emerging issues in Crohn’s disease: the central role of the macrophage.- Connective tissue responses.- State-of-the-Art Lecture: Genetics of Crohn’s disease: lessons from an impaired barrier.- Investigation of the gastrointestinal tract — expanding the horizons.- Faecal testing in inflammatory bowel disease.- Magnetic resonance imaging in inflammatory bowel disease.- The small bowel — capsule endoscopy in inflammatory bowel disease.- The basics on how-to-treat inflammatory bowel disease.- Mild-to-moderate ulcerative colitis.- Management of moderate to severe ulcerative colitis.- Medical therapy of small bowel Crohn’s disease.- The basics — how to treat perianal Crohn’s disease.- Therapeutic challenges in Asia.- Application and evaluation of traditional Chinese medicine in inflammatory bowel disease.- Immunosuppression in an endemically infected environment: tuberculosis.- Therapeutic challenges in Asia:hepatitis B and C.- Can Asia afford new and emerging therapies in inflammatory bowel disease?.- State-of-the-Art Lecture: Inflammatory bowel disease — can the East learn from mistakes of the West.- Making sense of emerging therapeutic options.- Are biological drugs effective enough?.- Are biologicals safe enough?.- Step-up or step-down therapy in Crohn’s disease.- New therapy for inflammatory bowel disease in pregnancy.- State-of-the Art Lecture: Irritable bowel syndrome: the new inflammatory bowel disease?.- New therapeutic approaches for inflammatory bowel disease — will they make a difference?.- Probiotics and inflammatory bowel disease.- Enhacing barrier function in inflammatory bowel disease.- Depleting phagocytes.- Laparoscopic surgery for colitis.