Volume 21, Issue 2

The 8th ECCO Basic Imaging Workshop, organised in collaboration with ESGAR and IBUS, will take place on Wednesday, March 3, 2027, immediately ahead of the ECCO Congress in Copenhagen. This edition introduces an enhanced practical format designed to provide participants with a solid and clinically relevant foundation in intestinal ultrasound (IUS) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for the assessment and monitoring of patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

The 79th ECCO Educational Workshop in Armenia was held on May 2, 2026, in an online format via Zoom. The event brought together more than 60 participants and provided an excellent opportunity for the Armenian IBD Community to discuss some of the most challenging aspects of the diagnosis and management of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). The workshop was organised with the participation of ECCO Faculty members Manuel Barreiro-de Acosta and Glen Doherty, together with local senior experts Manik Gemilyan and Gagik Hakobyan.

The 80th ECCO Educational Workshop took place on June 26, 2026 at the Park Plaza Histria Hotel in Pula, Croatia, as part of the 3rd Croatian IBD Congress organised by the Croatian IBD Society of the Croatian Medical Association. The workshop was organised by ECCO in collaboration with Željko Krznarić, Marko Brinar and their local team, with the support of Sophie Restellini and Triana Lobatón, members of the ECCO Education Committee (EduCom), who joined the workshop as representatives of ECCO.

The 81st ECCO Educational Workshop took place in Vilnius, Lithuania, on September 25, 2026, bringing together IBD specialists and trainees for a full day of interactive discussion around challenging real-life clinical scenarios. Held at the Artis Hotel in central Vilnius, the workshop provided an opportunity to explore how ECCO e-Guide algorithms can be applied to complex decisions encountered in everyday IBD practice.

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The ECCO Topical Review on IBD in the ageing population provides guidance on the increasingly recognised challenges of caring for older patients. The review begins by defining 'older adults' and distinguishing between those ageing with longstanding paediatric- or adult-onset disease and those presenting with true elderly-onset IBD.