Pulmonary inflammation in paediatric respiratory disease, Rome 2012

Aims:

Lung diseases that start during infancy and childhood have common features and fundamental differences. The objective of this seminar was to look at airway inflammation as a cause of and a consequence of four specific lung diseases that start during childhood and can have long-term consequences up to and through adulthood.

Pulmonary inflammation in paediatric respiratory disease, Rome 2012

Case report: An infant with acute severe bronchiolitis

G. Cangiano (Rome, Italy)

The innate immune system of the pathogenesis of vital bronchiolitis

L. Bont (Utrecht, Netherlands)

Bronchiolitis, wheezing bronchitis and asthma: exploring environmental and genetic factors

J. Schwarze (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)

Case report: A child with asthma after acute bronchiolitis

S. Carraro (Padova, Italy)

Factors that influence bronchiolitis severity

K-H. Carlsen (Oslo, Norway)

The most important knowledge gaps

F. Midulla (Rome, Italy)

Case report: a child with allergic asthma

T. Klok (Zwolle, Netherlands)

Update on basic research on airway inflammation in asthma

H. Smits (Leiden , Netherlands)

Airway remodeling in asthma

S. Saglani (London, United Kingdom)

Case report: A child with non-allergic asthma

J. Konradsen (Stockholm, Sweden)

Update on inflammatory mechanisms and monitoring of asthma-knowledge gaps

K. Lodrup Carlsen (Oslo, Norway)

Update on anti-inflammatory therapy in asthma

F. De Benedictis (Ancona, Italy)

Case report: Early airway inflammation in a CF child

C. Abbas (Bern, Switzerland)

Role of CF ion transport defect in airway inflammation and implication for antiinflammatory therapies

M. Mall (Heidelberg, Germany)

Role of altered immune response in CF and implication for antiinflammatory therapies

H. Grasemann (Toronto, On, Canada)

Case report: a CF child with severe airway inflammation

S. Yammine (Bern, Switzerland)

Update on the impact of inflammation/colonisation/infection of bacterias and viruses – knowledge gaps

N. Regamey (Bern, Switzerland)

Case report: A term newborn with mild respiratory distress

E. Mueller (Wien, Austria)

Update on basic research on airway inflammation in DPLD

B. Crestani (Paris, France)

Rational for the new term paediatric diffuse parenchymal lung disease (DPLD)

A. Clément (Paris, France)

Genetic studies in paediatric interstitial lung disease

N. Nathan (Paris, France)

The impact of airway inflammation in DPLD: knowledge gaps

E. Eber (Graz, Austria)