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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The biology of smoking and COPD

Thematic Poster Session
Chairs: S. Nardini (Vittorio Veneto, Italy), I. Annesi-Maesano (Paris, France)
Perception of the role of smoking in patients with COPD
V. Osman-Hicks, P. Albert, P. Calverley (Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom)
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Candidate gene associations in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
A. Friedlander, Y. Tesfaigzi, L. Silveira, R. Bowler (Denver, CO, Albuquerque, NM, United States Of America)
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Congress or journal article abstract
Influence of polymorphic variants of DRD2 and SLC6A3 genes and their combinations on smoking habit in Polish population
A. Sieminska, K. Buczkowski, E. Jassem, M. Niedoszytko, E. Tkacz (Gdansk, Bydgoszcz, Poland)
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Congress or journal article abstract
Sputum secretory leukocyte inhibitor and Clara cell protein 16 levels are not altered after 6 month and 1 year smoking cessation
I. Bouloukaki, M. Tsounakidou, I. Mitrouska, N. Siafakas, N. Tzanakis (Heraklion, Greece)
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Six month cigarette smoke effect on the selected BAL inflammatory parameters and lung tissue in experiment
M. Hurbankova, M. Beno, S. Cerna, E. Tatrai (Bratislava, Slovakia; Budapest, Hungary)
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Alveolar changes in a chronic tobacco smoke inhalation COPD mouse model
N. Parajuli, M. Seimetz, M. Roth, B. Fuchs, R. T. Schermuly, H. A. Ghofrani, C. Schudt, C. Hesslinger, W. Seeger, F. Grimminger, N. Weissmann (Giessen, Konstanz, Germany)
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Congress or journal article abstract
Local and systemic inflammation in healthy smokers
J. M. Diez, S. Mayoralas, D. Alvaro, A. Florez, P. Rodriguez, R. Perez, T. Bilbao, L. Comeche (Mostoles, Madrid, Spain)
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Congress or journal article abstract
Effects of smoking on lymphocyte subsets of peripheral blood in patients with chronic renal failure
S. Akcay, S. Sarinc Ulasli, I. Dogrul, G. Ulubay, S. Sezer (Ankara, Turkey)
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Congress or journal article abstractE-poster
Plasma homocysteine, folic acid levels and 5,10 methylenetetrahydrofolate reductaseC677T polymorphism in male patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
B. Isik, M. Batur, R. Isik, M. Yurt, M. Dasdag (Diyarbakir, Turkey)
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Smoking changes serum immunoglobulin level and peripheral blood phagocytes oxidative burst in asthmatic school children
A. Kamenov, D. Stojkovic, L. Brankovic, B. Kamenov, S. Cekic (Nis, Serbia And Montenegro)
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Follow-up survey of COPD in primary care physicians
M. Sawada, T. Kawayama, T. Iwanaga, H. Aizawa (Kurume, Japan)
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Scrining spirometric and inquiry assessment among residents of an ecological clear high mountain region and of an industrial town in Bulgaria
F. Shterev, R. Ivancheva, Z. Iankova, N. Mateva (Plovdiv, Bulgaria)
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Congress or journal article abstract
Fighting public ignorance on COPD in Athens Greece
E. Kosmas, K. Kouyianos, S. Dumitru, P. Rozana, M. Georgiou, M. Tsaggouli, A. Tsarouha, K. Dimakou, N. Anagnostopoulou, T. Gregoratou, M. Toumbis, G. Birba, N. Tzanakis, N. Siafakas (Athens, Greece)
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Congress or journal article abstract
Allergic airway inflammation can be a matter of fetal programming/the impact of pre and postnatal smoking exposure on future asthma
T. Zaharov, C. Vrang, V. Brændholt, B. Kamenov (Naestved, Denmark; Nis, Serbia And Montenegro)
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Congress or journal article abstract
Cigarette smoking pattern in patients with COPD
R. Zulkarneev, N. Zagidullin, S. Zagidullin, R. Ahmetdinov, G. Araslanova (Ufa, Russian Federation)
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Congress or journal article abstractE-poster
Early detection of COPD among smokers including young age group
W. Tarsin, N. Eshtewi, M. Soussi, I. Elshamli (Tripoli, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)
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Congress or journal article abstractE-poster
Smoking habits and long term oxygen therapy
F. Martins, M. Raposo, J. M. Correia, F. Nogueira (Lisbon, Portugal)
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Smoke and chronic obstructive peripheric arterial disease (COPAD) of lower limbs
N. D. Tesloianu, A. Tesloianu, C. Morosanu, L. Sorodoc (Iasi, Romania)
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Congress or journal article abstractE-poster
Comparison of exhaled carbon monoxide between patients with high dose and lowdose exposure to mustard gas
M. Mozaffarian, M. Shahsavan (Tehran, Islamic Republic Of Iran)
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