The Digestology Service of the Fundació Althaia has recently introduced a new endoscopic procedure for the removal of premalignant lesions or incipient cancers of the stomach, colon and rectum. This new procedure, known as endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD), is far less aggressive and invasive than conventional surgery as it avoids the total or partial removal […]
The specialist journal Colorectal Disease has recently published new results from the international multicentre study on surgery and COVID-19 called CovidSurg, in which one of the participants is Dr Pablo Collera, member of the Gastrointestinal Oncology, Endoscopy and Surgery research group (GOES) and head of the General Surgery service at Althaia. The article is entitled
Dr Marco Antonio Álvarez, a member of the Gastrointestinal Oncology, Endoscopy and Surgery research group (GOES), has received the award for the best poster at the 31st Congress of the Catalan Society of Digestology held last week in Girona. The award-winning paper is entitled Prevalence of missed lesions in patients with inadequate bowel preparation by
Dr João Da Costa, member of the Gastrointestinal Oncology, Endoscopy and Surgery (GOES) research group, presented the Web-based Learning module to increase the accuracy of Optical Diagnosis for detecting the Invasive Pattern of colorectal polyps (LODIP study) project at the 25th Annual Meeting of the Spanish Association of Gastroenterology held in Madrid. The presentation kicked
Dr Ignasi Puig, coordinator of the GOES research group, has recently taken part in the development of three clinical guidelines from the European Society of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ESGE). The papers provide recommendations for the use of endoscopic optical diagnosis, which aims to predict the histology of gastrointestinal lesions by observing their surface with light filters,
The Fundación de la Sociedad Española de Endoscopia Digestiva (SEED) has awarded a prize to the study Prevalencia de lesiones perdidas en pacientes con preparación intestinal inadecuada mediante la repetición temprana de una colonoscopia. This multicentre study was led by Dr Marco Antonio Álvarez, member of the Gastrointestinal Oncology, Endoscopy and Surgery research group. Dr Ignasi
The GOES research group has led the study Compound Endoscopic Morphological Features for Identifying Non-Pedunculated Lesions ≥20 mm with Intramucosal Neoplasia published in the journal Cancers. This is an international reference publication in which 17 Spanish hospitals participated, including the Hospital Clínic in Barcelona and the Hospital Gregorio Marañón in Madrid. This study identifies the best treatment
Althaia and the Fundación Española de Gastroenterología (FUNDEG) have recently signed two collaboration agreements to allow the group to provide scientific and technical support for the research projects carried out by this national foundation. Under the first agreement, Dr Ignasi Puig, coordinator of the GOES, is appointed Scientific Director of the European Registry on the
Dr Ignasi Puig is one of the 14 authors from all over Spain who have helped to draw up the V Consenso sobre el tratamiento de la infección por Helicobacter pylori. The document was published in parallel by the two main Spanish journals specializing in the field of digestology, the Revista Española de Enfermedades Digestivas
