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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PG14 Core Curriculum Postgraduate Course: Occupational asthma: risk factors and management

Postgraduate Course
Chairs: V. Schluenssen (Arhus, Denmark), B. Nemery (Leuven, Belgium)
Aims: This course covers the main issues of occupational asthma from pathogenesis to current prevention and treatment strategies The main aims of this course are to: describe the different types of occupational asthma; describe the key risk factors and events involved in the development of occupational asthma, and to understand the principles behind the development of adult onset asthma; review how risk factors interact with the human immune system, and discuss the causal relationship between inhaled exposure and asthma and the biological mechanisms underlying the interaction with the occupational environment; and define the goals and importance of prevention.

HERMES SYLLABUS LINKS: B.6.1 Occupational asthma, B.17.1 Upper airway disease, I.7. Public health issues.

TYPE OF COURSE: Case, problem, lecture and evidence based

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Epidemiology of occupational asthma in the work-place D. Heederik (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
Diagnosis and treatment of occupational asthma P. Cullinan (London, United Kingdom)
The link between rhinitis, asthma and occupation D. Nowak (Munich, Germany)
Gene-environment interaction in occupational asthma F. Kauffmann (Villejuif, France)