APPSPGHAN 2022

Jia-Feng Wu

Professor/National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Department of Pediatrics, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Taiwan

Dr Wu’s research interests focus on the pediatric liver diseases, inflammatory bowel diseases, viral hepatitis, and gastrointestinal motility disorder. Dr Wu’s researches cover the natural course and genetic background of pediatric liver diseases, inflammatory bowel diseases, host factors and host-viral interactions on the natural course of chronic hepatitis infection from children to adults in HBV and signal analysis of high resolution manometry. He has been actively engaged in many global clinical trials on the anti-viral therapy of chronic hepatitis B infected children and biologics in inflammatory bowel diseases. He has served as a reviewer for more than 30 international scientific journals and internal medical congress, and published more than 120 peer-reviewed articles.

Advances In Paediatric Endoscopy: Expanding The Horizon

Endoscopy Symposium (Day 3)

15 October 2022 (0830-1000) @ Sipadan Hall 1

Pediatric endoscopy is widely performed by pediatric gastroenterologists for a long time and is an essential modality to assist pediatric clinicians in the diagnosis and management of various kinds of pediatric gastrointestinal diseases. Most new endoscopic devices and technologies are developed from an adult endoscopy perspective at the beginning, and the major limitation of these new technologies for pediatric patients include the lack of large-scale pediatric trials, size of the devices, the indications of pediatric patients, the experience of pediatric gastroenterologists in performing these new technologies, and the economic consideration to develop these new technologies in the pediatric endoscopy unit. In developing these new technologies, adult gastroenterologists in Asia play an essential role in assisting the procedures and even the technology development in the pediatric endoscopy unit. With the maturation of these new technologies and the improvement of the size of these devices, pediatric gastroenterologists get the chance to perform these emerging technologies to benefit pediatric patients.

The recent advances in pediatric endoscopy include a decrease in invasiveness, improvement in lesion detection ability, functional assessment of gastrointestinal dysmotility, and therapeutic endoscopic technologies.

With the advanced diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy technologies in the field of pediatric gastroenterology, we are equipped with more and more modalities to monitor and manage our pediatric patients with special clinical considerations delicately.

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