Annual Congress Barcelona 2010

Saturday, 18.09.2010
Sunday, 19.09.2010
Monday, 20.09.2010
Tuesday, 21.09.2010
Wednesday, 22.09.2010

Citations should be made in the following way: Authors. Title. Eur Respir J 2010; 36: Suppl. 54, abstract number.

Material from 2010:

4910 Abstracts
646 Slide presentations
250 Webcasts
97 Handouts
2124 e-posters
250 Multimedia files

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PG8 Postgraduate Course: Phenotypes of asthma and COPD

Postgraduate Course
Chairs: C. Janson (Uppsala, Sweden), R. Polosa (Catania, Italy)
Aims: Asthma and COPD are not single disease entities but syndromes. Both asthma and COPD, particularly COPD, include different clinical phenotypes with different risk factor patterns, clinical presentation and large variations in prognosis.

HERMES SYLLABUS LINKS: B.1.1 Asthma, B.1.4 COPD (chronic obstructive bronchitis and/or emphysema), B.1.3 Chronic bronchitis, B.6.1 Occupational asthma.

TYPE OF COURSE: Case and problem based

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What is a phenotype and how to define clinical phenotypes of obstructive airway disease B. Lundback (Gothenburg, Sweden)
Clinically important phenotypes of asthma E. Bel (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Clinically important phenotypes of COPD P. Bakke (Bergen, Norway)
The role of pathophysiological aspects and inflammatory markers in phenotyping COPD R. Beasley (Wellington, New Zealand)