Annual Congress Amsterdam 2011

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Clinical Year in Review I

Session
Chairs: D. Bouros (Alexandroupolis, Greece), C. Strange (Charleston, United States of America)
Aims: This session will offer the possibility to review four topics of paramount interest for clinicians and fellows in training. This will highlight the new and emerging clinical concepts in the management of respiratory related diseases and conditions.

Suggested references:
"Advances in rehabilitation and the acute exacerbation"
- Man WD, Polkey MI, Donaldson N, et al. Community pulmonary rehabilitation after hospitalisation for acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. BMJ 2004; 20: 1209-1214.
- Clini EM, Crisafulli E, Costi S, et al. Effects of early inpatient rehabilitation after acute exacerbation of COPD. Respir Medicine 2009; 103: 1526-1531.
- Troosters T, Probst VS, Crul T, et al. Resistance training prevents deterioration in quadriceps muscle function during acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2010; 181: 1072-1077.
- Puhan M, Scharplatz M, Troosters T, et al. Pulmonary rehabilitation following exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2009; 1: CD005305.
"Thoracic malignancies"
- Annema JT, van Meerbeeck JP, Rintoul RC, et al. Mediastinoscopy vs endosonography for mediastinal nodal staging of lung cancer: a randomized trial. JAMA 2010; 304: 2245-2252.
- Travis WD, Brambilla E, Noguchi M, et al. International association for the study of lung cancer/American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society international multidisciplinary classification of lung adenocarcinoma. J Thorac Oncol 2011; 6: 244-285.
- Zhu CQ, Ding K, Strumpf D, et al. Prognostic and predictive gene signature for adjuvant chemotherapy in resected non-small-cell lung cancer. J Clin Oncol 2010; 28: 4417-4424.
- Scherpereel A, Berghmans T, Lafitte JJ, et al. Valproate-doxorubicin: promising therapy for progressing mesothelioma. A phase II study. Eur Respir J 2011; 37: 129-135.
"Advances in lung transplantation":
- De Oliveira NC, Osaki S, Maloney JD, et al. Lung transplantation with donation after cardiac death donors: long-term follow-up in a single centre. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2010; 139: 1306-1315.
- Arnoutakis GJ, Allen JG, Merlo CA, et al. Impact of the lung allocation score on resource utilization after lung transplantation. J Heart Lung Transplant 2011; 30: 14-21.
- Haneya A, Phillipp A, Mueller T, et al. Extracorporeal circulatory systems as a bridge to lung transplantation at remote tranplant centers. Ann Thorac Surg 2011; 91: 250-255.
- Sato M, Waddell TK, Wagnetz U, et al. Restrictive allograft syndrome (RAS): a novel form of allograft dysfunction. J Heart Lung Transplant 2011; 30: 735-742.

Advances in rehabilitation and the acute exacerbation E. Clini (Modena, Italy)
Thoracic malignancies J-P. Sculier (Brussels, Belgium)
Advances in interstitial lung diseases K. Flaherty (Ann Arbour, United States of America)
Advances in lung transplantation A. Boehler (Zurich, Switzerland)