Annual Congress Amsterdam 2011

Saturday, 24.09.2011
Sunday, 25.09.2011
Monday, 26.09.2011
Tuesday, 27.09.2011
Wednesday, 28.09.2011

Citations should be made in the following way: Authors. Title. Eur Respir J 2011; 38: Suppl. 55, abstract number.

Material from 2011

4205 Abstracts
632 Slide presentations
250 Webcasts
66 Handouts
1703 e-posters
250 Multimedia files

Material from 2011 Show

Tuesday, 27.09.2011

08:30 - 10:30	351	Clinical Year in Review I	Session
08:30 - 10:30	352	New dimensions in respiratory clinics - Peter Macklem memorial symposium	Hot topics
08:30 - 10:30	353	Chronic bronchial infection: more than a syndrome	Symposium
08:30 - 10:30	354	The times they are a-changing: how noninvasive ventilation changed our practice	Symposium
08:30 - 10:30	355	Adenosine and purigenic signalling in inflammatory lung disease	Symposium
08:30 - 10:30	356	Slow-growing lung cancer	Symposium
08:30 - 10:30	357	Pulmonary infections and sepsis	Oral Presentation
08:30 - 10:30	358	E-learning	Oral Presentation
08:30 - 10:30	359	Important new developments in paediatric respiratory physiology	Oral Presentation
08:30 - 10:30	360	New insights in the incidence, variation and risk factors of asthma	Oral Presentation
08:30 - 10:30	361	Growth factors and fibrogenesis: are they good, bad or both?	Oral Presentation
08:30 - 10:30	362	Obstructive sleep apnoea in children and adults	Oral Presentation
08:30 - 10:30	363	Sleep and weight: heavy under pressure	Oral Presentation
08:30 - 10:30	364	Physical activity monitors: from toy to valid tool?	Oral Presentation
08:30 - 10:30	365	Asthma: basic science and clinical studies	Poster Discussion
08:30 - 10:30	366	Inflammation and genes in childhood asthma	Poster Discussion
08:30 - 10:30	367	Risk factors and treatment outcomes in multidrug- and extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis	Poster Discussion
08:30 - 10:30	368	Environmental exposure and disease mechanisms	Poster Discussion
08:30 - 10:30	369	Experimental pulmonary hypertension	Poster Discussion
08:30 - 10:30	370	Biomarkers and exacerbations of asthma and COPD	Poster Discussion
10:45 - 12:45	372	COPD Research Award Ceremony (supported by Boehringer Ingelheim) followed by Clinical Year in Review II	Session
10:45 - 12:45	373	New imaging tools for diagnosis of alterations in lung structure and function in COPD	Symposium
10:45 - 12:45	374	Respiratory complications after chest trauma: current management	Symposium
10:45 - 12:45	375	Interventional bronchoscopy in children	Symposium
10:45 - 12:45	376	Why is epigenetics important for lung disease?	Symposium
10:45 - 12:45	377	Recent therapeutic advances with tyrosine-kinase inhibitors in nonsmall-cell lung cancer	Hot topics
10:45 - 12:45	378	Non-tuberculous mycobacteria pulmonary infections	Oral Presentation
10:45 - 12:45	379	Early wheezing conditions in childhood	Oral Presentation
10:45 - 12:45	380	Late-Breaking Abstracts Session: New mechanisms in airway disease	Oral Presentation
10:45 - 12:45	381	Highlights in lung function 2011	Oral Presentation
10:45 - 12:45	382	New treatments for airway disease	Oral Presentation
10:45 - 12:45	383	Pathobiology of experimental pulmonary hypertension	Oral Presentation
10:45 - 12:45	384	Outdoor air pollution studies	Oral Presentation
10:45 - 12:45	385	Understanding disease and drug mechanisms	Oral Presentation
10:45 - 12:45	386	Obstructive sleep apnoea as a comorbidity	Poster Discussion
10:45 - 12:45	387	Challenges in chronic disease management: helping individuals with chronic lung disease remain stable	Poster Discussion
10:45 - 12:45	388	Insight into mechanisms of respiratory infections	Poster Discussion
10:45 - 12:45	389	Phenotyping and monitoring of airway diseases	Poster Discussion
10:45 - 12:45	390	Treatment beyond inhalers: endoscopic lung volume reduction	Poster Discussion
10:45 - 12:45	391	Molecular markers: diagnosis and management of malignant pleural effusions	Poster Discussion
12:50 - 14:40	393	COPD diagnosis	Thematic Poster Session
12:50 - 14:40	394	COPD mechanisms	Thematic Poster Session
12:50 - 14:40	395	New insights in management of interstitial and vascular lung diseases	Thematic Poster Session
12:50 - 14:40	396	What do individuals know about their disease? Educational needs, the psychological impact of chronic respiratory disease and health-related quality of life	Thematic Poster Session
12:50 - 14:40	397	Challenges in rehabilitation: some old dilemmas revisited with some solutions?	Thematic Poster Session
12:50 - 14:40	398	Imaging in oncology and infectious diseases	Thematic Poster Session
12:50 - 14:40	399	The basic and the future: pure diagnostic or dedicated wavelengths play	Thematic Poster Session
12:50 - 14:40	400	A little bit of everything: interventional pneumology	Thematic Poster Session
12:50 - 14:40	401	Different profiles of sarcoidosis and other granulomatous disorders	Thematic Poster Session
12:50 - 14:40	402	Clinical perspectives in several interstitial diseases	Thematic Poster Session
12:50 - 14:40	403	Quality of diagnosis and assessment in primary care	Thematic Poster Session
12:50 - 14:40	404	Recent advances in noninvasive ventilation used for treating acute respiratory failure	Thematic Poster Session
12:50 - 14:40	405	Lung development and neoplasia	Thematic Poster Session
12:50 - 14:40	406	COPD: clinical studies and animal cell models	Thematic Poster Session
12:50 - 14:40	407	Immunology and cell biology of asthma and COPD	Thematic Poster Session
12:50 - 14:40	408	Phagocytes and dendritic cells	Thematic Poster Session
12:50 - 14:40	409	Cell biology of lung disease	Thematic Poster Session
12:50 - 14:40	410	Novel mechanisms in lung injury	Thematic Poster Session
12:50 - 14:40	411	Obstructive sleep apnoea: clinical aspects II	Thematic Poster Session
12:50 - 14:40	412	Prediction of pulmonary thromboembolism	Thematic Poster Session
12:50 - 14:40	413	Asthma management and response	Thematic Poster Session
12:50 - 14:40	414	Drug delivery and pharmacokinetics II	Thematic Poster Session
12:50 - 14:40	415	Airways disease comorbidities and general aspects	Thematic Poster Session
12:50 - 14:40	416	Update on monitoring airway diseases	Thematic Poster Session
12:50 - 14:40	417	Bronchial hyperresponsiveness and exhaled and sputum biomarkers	Thematic Poster Session
12:50 - 14:40	418	Treatment strategies, systemic manifestations and biomarkers in airway diseases	Thematic Poster Session
12:50 - 14:40	419	Diagnosis and treatment of inflammatory respiratory diseases	Thematic Poster Session
12:50 - 14:40	420	Experimental modulation of airway inflammation	Thematic Poster Session
12:50 - 14:40	421	Respiratory epidemiology: quality of life, therapy and socioeconomics	Thematic Poster Session
12:50 - 14:40	422	Respiratory epidemiology: prevalence, incidence and remission	Thematic Poster Session
12:50 - 14:40	423	Respiratory epidemiology: methods, definitions and phenotypes	Thematic Poster Session
12:50 - 14:40	424	Work-related respiratory diseases and specific exposures	Thematic Poster Session
12:50 - 14:40	425	Work, the environment and respiratory disease	Thematic Poster Session
12:50 - 14:40	426	Anti-smoking interventions: prevention and treatment	Thematic Poster Session
12:50 - 14:40	427	Epidemiology of smoking and smoking cessation interventions	Thematic Poster Session
12:50 - 14:40	428	Coping and lifestyle in childhood asthma	Thematic Poster Session
12:50 - 14:40	429	Biological correlates and comorbidities of childhood asthma/allergy	Thematic Poster Session
12:50 - 14:40	430	Cystic fibrosis: clinical and laboratory studies	Thematic Poster Session
12:50 - 14:40	431	Issues in paediatric and neonatal intensive care	Thematic Poster Session
12:50 - 14:40	432	General thoracic surgery II	Thematic Poster Session
12:50 - 14:40	433	Influenza A (H1N1): lessons after the epidemic	Thematic Poster Session
12:50 - 14:40	434	Challenges in tuberculosis control	Thematic Poster Session
12:50 - 14:40	435	Novel strategies for the diagnosis of tuberculosis	Thematic Poster Session
12:50 - 14:40	436	Treatment of tuberculosis and adverse drug reactions	Thematic Poster Session
12:50 - 14:40	437	Quality management for lung cancer patients	Thematic Poster Session
13:00 - 14:15	438	Pulmonologists and intensivists: two hearts are better than one?	Symposium
13:00 - 14:15	439	Pro/Con debate: Maintenance chemotherapy after induction chemotherapy for advanced nonsmall cell lung cancer	Symposium
14:45 - 16:45	453	Ceremony for Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Award (supported by Actelion) followed by Pulmonary Hypertension in the Clinic Grand Round - an interactive session	Grand round
14:45 - 16:45	454	New ERS Guidelines: Management of Work-Related Asthma	Symposium
14:45 - 16:45	455	Non-tuberculous mycobacterial infections	Symposium
14:45 - 16:45	456	Exercise strategies for chronic respiratory disease	Symposium
14:45 - 16:45	457	Molecular biomarkers at the bedside of critically ill patients	Symposium
14:45 - 16:45	458	Mucus in airway diseases: bad or good partner?	Hot topics
14:45 - 16:45	459	From chronic lung diseases in childhood to COPD	Symposium
14:45 - 16:45	460	Late-Breaking Abstracts Session: New treatments and targets for airway disease	Oral Presentation
14:45 - 16:45	461	Innovative diagnostic methods for lung cancer	Oral Presentation
14:45 - 16:45	462	Appropriate use of antibiotics in respiratory infections in Europe (the GRACE project)	Oral Presentation
14:45 - 16:45	463	Biomarkers in sarcoidosis	Oral Presentation
14:45 - 16:45	464	Access to the periphery: solitary periphery nodule	Oral Presentation
14:45 - 16:45	465	Pro/Con Debate ""Allergen avoidance in asthma: useful after all or a waste of time and effort?	Symposium
14:45 - 16:45	466	COPD mechanisms	Poster Discussion
14:45 - 16:45	467	Cystic fibrosis: new basic, clinical and bacteriological knowledge	Poster Discussion
14:45 - 16:45	468	Rare lung diseases in children	Poster Discussion
14:45 - 16:45	469	Lung cell injury and repair	Poster Discussion
14:45 - 16:45	470	Morphological and functional imaging in obstructive airway disease	Poster Discussion
14:45 - 16:45	471	Disease management in specific primary care populations	Poster Discussion