Material from 2008:
- 3952 Abstracts
- 658 Slide presentations
- 316 Webcasts
- 96 Handouts
- 1824 e-posters
- 316 Multimedia files
Material from 2008:
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- 3952 Abstracts
- 658 Slide presentations
- 316 Webcasts
- 96 Handouts
- 1824 e-posters
- 316 Multimedia files
PG2 - Asthma: natural history, risk factors and overall management
Postgraduate CourseChairs: M. Cazzola (Rome, Italy), R. Dahl (Aarhus, Denmark)
Aims: This is the third course in a three-year postgraduate core curriculum covering the main issues on asthma from pathogenetics to current treatment strategies. Participants can attend a single module and earlier modules can be accessed on the ERS e-learning site. The main aims of this third module in the series are:
-to describe the key risk factors and events involved in the development of asthma in children, and to understand the principles behind the development and natural progression of asthma in adulthood;
-to review how risk factors interact with the human immune system, and discuss the causal relationship between inhaled allergen exposure and asthma and the biological mechanisms underlying the interaction between infective agents and airway inflammation;
-to define the goals and importance of asthma education, and to identify the resources and strategies that enhance optimal outcomes;
-to understand whether allergen-specific immunotherapy may, by altering the natural course of allergic disease, have a preventive effect on asthma.