Abstract submission for ECCO’20 is now open! Please send your abstract for consideration. The ECCO’20 Congress will be better than ever and your prime research work deserves to be presented in Vienna!
This issue features a special message to new members of the ECCO Committees. SciCom welcomes Marc Ferrante and, for the first time ever, a surgeon, Antonino Spinelli, has been nominated as a member of GuiCom, in line with ECCO’s translational approach. D-ECCO welcomed Lihi Godny, Eytan Wine and Dearbhaile O’Hanlon. Finally, S-ECCO welcomes Pär Myrelid as a new member.
Another highlight of this issue is the section dedicated to diet patterns and microbiome changes, especially in paediatric patients with CD. Diet modification might be a novel form of support in children, in whom the use of biologics has limitations and the disease causes issues like malabsorption and interferes with growth and development.
Because of the ageing of our patients and population, and the chronicity of the disease, we face an increasing number of elderly patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease. In this issue of ECCO News, you will find results from the post hoc analysis of the REACT study discussing the safety and efficacy of early combined immunosuppressive drugs in the elderly population.
This issue also takes a particular glance at Y-ECCO, which offers young investigators opportunities to expand their scientific skills and develop their own research projects. Do not forget to take a peek into the Y-ECCO Literature Review, with its focus on predictors of anti-TNF treatment failure in naive patients with active luminal Crohn’s Disease and the rates and characteristics of post-colonoscopy colorectal cancer in the Swedish IBD population. In addition, be sure to check the Y-ECCO Interview with Professor David Rampton.
Finally, I encourage all of you to read the results of the studies awarded with “The best investigator-initiated study (IIS) Abstract Awards” at ECCO’19.
As you enjoy this issue of ECCO News, be sure to stay tuned for more updates!
