Innovative medications for patients with ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease, microscopic colitis, and coping with difficult emotions in the disease - these are just some of the topics of open lectures by doctors and a psychologist to be heard on Saturday at the Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Education Day in Warsaw.
IBD Education Day in Warsaw. Patients will be able to meet with specialists
Published Nov. 22, 2023 08:50
fot. Towarzystwo J-elita
- The lectures are a unique opportunity to ask questions of experts, receive free guides on the disease, and meet other long-standing patients who are willing to share their experience on how to cope with IBD in everyday life," says Agnieszka Golębiewska, president of the "J-elita" Society, which is the organizer of the lectures.
The meeting will be held this Saturday, November 25, at 10:30 a.m., in the Auditorium of the Institute of Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering of the Polish Academy of Sciences, at 4 Ks. Trojden Street in Warsaw. Similar lectures have already been held in Kielce, Poznan, Krakow and Szczecin, among others.
Lectures will include:
● lek. Emil Bik, Department of Hepatology, Transplantology and Internal Medicine, WUM - Primary sclerosing cholangitis - extraintestinal manifestation of inflammatory bowel disease?
● lek. Arkadiusz Bielski, Department of Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology National Medical Institute MSWiA - Microscopic colitis - Polish registry
● Konrad Lewandowski, MD, Department of Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, National Medical Institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration in Warsaw - Small molecules - a revolution in IBD?
● lek. Michal Krogulecki - New opportunities. More freedom. Biological treatment of patients with IBD
● Anna Piecunko, psychologist, psychotherapist - How to deal with "difficult" emotions in illness.
There are nearly 100,000 people with IBD in Poland: 73.2 thousand with ulcerative colitis (UC) and 23.6 thousand with Crohn's disease. The disease manifests itself, among other things: severe abdominal pain, diarrhea, fatigue, weight loss, blood in the stool (especially in the case of UC), and growth retardation in children. It is incurable - patients must take medication for life. It is associated with frequent hospitalizations. Patients often undergo surgery to remove a section or the entire intestine. For many, the disease means disability and social exclusion.
Read more on the website of the J-elite Society
