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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New trends in interventional pulmonology

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Chairs: A. Ernst (Brookline, Ma, United States of America), C. Marquette (Nice, France)

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Update on the European multicenter, blinded and randomized study of bronchoscopic placement of valves for the treatment of severe emphysema V. Ninane, C. Geltner, J. Gottlieb, T. Welte, A. Rosell, L. Seijo, J. Zulueta, X. Gonzalez (Brussels, Belgium; Innsbruck, Austria; Hannover, Germany; Barcelona, Pamplona, Spain; Redmond, WA, United States Of America)
Evaluation of a bronchoscopically delivered non-valve implant that mechanically compresses diseased lung for the treatment of emphysema D. Ost, A. Ernst, R. Maxfield, F. Herth, M. Ginsberg, M. DeCamp, R. Yung, P. Wu, R. McKenna (New York, NY, Boston, MA, Baltimore, MD, Mountain View, CA, Los Angeles, CA, United States Of America; Boston, MA, Uzbekistan; Heidelberg, Germany)
Non-valve minimally invasive implantable device for the treatment of late stage homogeneous and heterogeneous emphysema – results of a feasibility trial F. J. F. Herth, R. Eberhardt, A. Ernst (Heidelberg, Germany; Boston, MA, United States Of America)
Multicentre experience with bronchial valve treatment of life-threatening prolonged air leaks D. Sterman, C. Gillespie, R. Cerfolio, R. Mularski, X. Gonzalez, S. Springmeyer (Philadelphia, PA, Birmingham, AL, Portland, OR, Redmond, WA, United States Of America)
Endo-cytoscopy system is a novel endoscopic technology to visualize microscopic imaging of the tracheobronchial tree K. Shibuya, K. Yasufuku, M. Chiyo, T. Nakajima, T. Fujiwara, K. Nagato, H. Suzuki, A. Iyoda, S. Yoshida, M. Suzuki, Y. Sekine, K. Hiroshima, Y. Nakatani, I. Yoshino (Chiba, Japan)
Relapsing polychondritis and airway involvement S. Rafeq, D. Trentham, P. Boiselle, C. Reddy, G. Michaud, A. Majid, F. Herth, A. Ernst (Boston, MA, United States Of America; Heidelberg, Germany)
Close surveillance strategy for early lung cancer: results of 15 years of observation E. Reinen, P. Lee, D. A. M. Heideman, A. Vonk-Noordegraaf, C. Kooi, P. J. F. Snijders, P. E. Postmus, T. G. Sutedja (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
In-vivo confocal endomicroscopy of peripheral lung nodules using 488nm / 660 nm induced fluorescence and topical methylene blue L. Thiberville, M. Salaun, S. Lachkar, S. Moreno-Swirc, G. Bourg-Heckly (Rouen, Paris, France)