Gastro-intestinal diseases and practical endoscopy workshop

Location: Veterinær Akademiet Øst, Roskildevej 22, Albertslund

This course provides a combined theoretical and practical wetlab approach to the diagnosis, investigation, and management of chronic enteropathies in small animals.

Through structured lectures and hands-on training, participants will learn how to approach chronic gastrointestinal cases, work through key differentials, and classify chronic enteropathies.

The course covers appropriate diagnostic pathways, including evaluation of extra-gastrointestinal causes, use of GI biomarkers, and primary intestinal investigations, with detailed guidance on when to perform biopsies, how to obtain them (endoscopic vs surgical), and how to interpret histopathology results.

Species-specific challenges; particularly distinguishing feline chronic inflammatory enteropathy from low-grade gastrointestinal lymphoma; are addressed, alongside an update on the role of the microbiome in GI health and disease.

Management strategies are discussed in depth, including dietary therapy, feeding tube placement and refeeding of anorectic patients, treatment of protein-losing enteropathies, immunosuppressive and microbiota-modulating therapies, and the specific management of granulomatous colitis.

Prognosis and long-term case management and client communication are integrated throughout.

The practical wet lab component focuses on the basics of flexible gastrointestinal endoscopy, allowing participants to gain hands-on experience with equipment handling and maintenance, foreign body removal, and endoscopic biopsy techniques to support real-world clinical application.

Learning Objectives:

Approach to chronic enteropathy diagnosis

• Differentials for chronic gastro-intestinal signs
• Understand the different types of chronic enteropathy
• Appropriate investigations of chronic enteropathy, extra gastro-intestinal causes, biomarkers of gastro-intestinal function
• Primary gastro-intestinal disease investigations, classification of chronic enteropathies, gastro-intestinal biopsies when? How: surgical vs endoscopic?, how to interpret your GI biopsy results
• Specificity of the feline species: chronic inflammatory enteropathy vs low-grade gastrointestinal lymphoma
• Update on the understanding of the role of microbiome in gastro-intestinal health and disease

Management of chronic enteropathies

• Dietary management, type of diet, feeding tubes (including placement) + refeeding the anorectic patient
• Specific management of protein losing enteropathies
• Immunosuppressive therapy in chronic enteropathies
• Microbiota modulating therapies in chronic enteropathies
• Specificity of granulomatous colitis
• Understanding and communicating the prognosis and long term implication for the management of GI diseases

Basics of flexible endoscopy for GI investigation and intervention in Wetlab

• Understanding the equipment/maintenance/forceps etc
• Foreign body removal in pets, oesophageal, gastric
• Endoscopic biopsy sampling for GI disease, equipment, technique

Price

10.500 DKK

You will not be charged any amount upon registration. The invoice will be sent to the provided invoice email 1–2 weeks before the course starts.

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