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IBD diseases, including Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, are affecting an increasing number of patients. In the Czech Republic, the incidence of these diseases has increased by a factor of 10 over the last 50 years. The disease usually affects patients around the age of 20 and requires lifelong treatment. Sufferers suffer from diarrhoea, crampy abdominal pain, fatigue, some malnutrition or severe inflammation around the rectum. All these difficulties impair the quality of their personal and professional life. Approximately two thirds of patients have to undergo surgery during their lifetime due to failure of conservative treatment, complications of the disease or for a pre-cancerous condition or even intestinal cancer.
The treatment of IBD patients is long-term and complicated, requiring close collaboration between specialists in gastroenterology and surgery and often extremely high costs. Care must therefore be concentrated in specialised centres. One of them has recently been established in the Hořovice Hospital. Therefore, the management of this private medical facility decided to support a joint meeting of experts, which will focus on preoperative preparation, prevention of postoperative recurrence, and some other aspects of IBD treatment.
The patronage of the event was taken over by the owner of the hospital Ing. Sotirios Zavalianis and Director of Hořovice Hospital Luděk Pelikán, MBA, who will personally welcome the participants during the hospital tour. Selected journalists will have a unique opportunity to see the new modern facilities of the hospital, including the equipment of the operating theatres or the intensive care unit. In addition to the professional programme, laparoscopic and endoscopic virtual simulators will be available throughout the event. A professionally guided brainstorming session is planned as part of the programme, with the aim of finding topics for new collaborative research projects that could be relevant for the treatment of IBD patients.
The expert guarantors of the event are the newly established IBD Surgery Section of the Czech Surgical Society of the Czech Surgical Society of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the Working Group on Idiopathic Inflammatory Bowel Diseases of the Czech Gastroenterological Society of the Czech Society of Gastroenterology.
The symposium will also include a social evening at Zbiroh Castle. The event will end with a medieval Olympics.
The programme of the event can be found here
