Annual Congress Berlin 2008

Saturday, 04.10.2008
Sunday, 05.10.2008
Monday, 06.10.2008
Tuesday, 07.10.2008
Wednesday, 08.10.2008

Citations should be made in the following way: Authors. Title. Eur Respir J 2008; 32: Suppl. 52, abstract number.


Material from 2008:
  • 3952 Abstracts
  • 658 Slide presentations
  • 316 Webcasts
  • 96 Handouts
  • 1824 e-posters
  • 316 Multimedia files
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COPD in the elderly - quality of life and scores in COPD

Thematic Poster Session
Chairs: D. Gorecka (Warsaw, Poland), D. Stolz (Basel, Switzerland)
The mini nutritional assessment (MNA) and the perception of dyspnea in elderly subjects with COPD. The MINUTRA project
V. Bellia, G. Paglino, S. Battaglia, N. Scichilone, G. Augugliaro, G. B. Figlioli, C. Sorino, S. Reitano, R. Pistelli, V. Grassi, R. Antonelli Incalzi (Palermo, Roma, Brescia, Italy)
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Prevalence and determinants of anaemia in hospitalized elderly COPD patients
P. Ranieri, A. Bianchetti, C. Cornali, E. M. Clini, M. Trabucchi (Brescia, Modena, Italy)
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Impact of age in the clinical expression of COPD
A. Corlateanu, C. Cote (Chishinau, Republic Of Moldova; Bay Pines, United States Of America)
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The Spanish national clinical audit on COPD exacerbations (eCOPD). Pilot study: selection of study subjects
F. Pozo-Rodriguez1, J. Fernández Francés, J. Hueto Perez de Heredia, J. L. Izquierdo Alonso, C. Melero-Moreno, C. J. Alvarez (Madrid, Guadalajara, Pamplona/Navarra, Spain)
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Autonomic function in elderly COPD patients with and without hypoxemia
R. Zulli, D. Turini, V. Pinelli, M. De Vecchi, F. Nicosia, E. Boni, G. Romanelli, C. Tantucci (Brescia, Italy)
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Activities of daily living and health status impairment in elderly COPD outpatients
B. Gvozdenovic, S. Cucak, A. Gvozdenovic (Belgrade, Kraljevo, Serbia And Montenegro)
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Living with COPD in Canada: patient self-assessment and objective measures of disease impact
R. Hodder, P. Hernandez, M. Balter, J. Bourbeau (Ottawa, Halifax, Toronto, Montreal, Canada)
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The miners‘ disability score is a useful measure of respiratory disability and reflects activities of daily living scores in COPD
S. D. W. Miller, C. Armstrong, M. W. Elliott (Leeds, United Kingdom)
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Determinants of health-related quality of life (HRQL) in patients with COPD
T. Perez, R. Escamilla, C. Pinet, D. Caillaud, P. Carré, N. Roche (Paris, France)
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Influence of smoking on quality of life (QoL) and dyspnoea in patients with COPD
T. Pertseva, K. Gashynova (Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine)
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Assessing reluctance to adapt to COPD: preliminary results of the acceptance of disease and impairments questionnaire (ADIQ)
L. M. Boer, L. Daudey, J. B. Peters, Y. F. Heijdra, J. Molema, P. N. R. Dekhuijzen, J. H. Vercoulen (Nijmegen, Netherlands)
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Symptom scoring in COPD patients
G. Cakmak, Z. A. Saglam, T. Saler, M. Yenigun, E. Atsoglu, L. U. Temiz, T. Demir (Istanbul, Turkey)
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The relationship between Bode index and quality of life, CRP, TNF-α, Il-8 in COPD patients
N. Sarioglu, A. Ozgen, A. Sakar Coskun, P. Celik, B. Cengiz Ozyurt, F. Taneli, A. Yorgancioglu (Manisa, Turkey)
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Influence smoking on the health-related quality of life in COPD patients III-IV stages
I. Trofimenko, B. Chernyak (Irkutsk, Russian Federation)
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Self-reported COPD: spirometric validation in a resource limited setting
A. S. Haque, M. Irfan, Z. Waheed, J. A. Khan (Karachi, Pakistan)
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Quality of life in Russian patients with COPD complicated by pulmonary artery hypertension
V. Pyankov, Y. Chuyasova (Kirov, Russian Federation)
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