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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Diagnostic paediatric lung function: technical and clinical aspects

E-Communication Session
Chairs: E. Lombardi (Florence, Italy), P. Seddon (West Sussex , United Kingdom)
Severity of acute RSV bronchiolitis in infants and parental lung function
C. Calogero, M. M. H. Kusel, P. D. Sly (Perth, WA, Australia; Florence, Italy)
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Baseline lung function and bronchodilator response in young children with different wheezing phenotypes
E. Oostveen, S. Dom, K. Desager, W. De Backer, J. Weyler (Antwerp, Belgium)
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Multiple breath washout (MBW): within-test repeatability and short-term reproducibility of FRC and lung clearance index (LCI) in healthy children and adolescents
S. Fuchs, M. Gappa (Hannover, Germany)
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Congress or journal article abstract
Evaluation of sleep quality in primary ciliary dyskinesia patients
S. Oktem, A. Caglar, R. Ersu, Z. S. Uyan, F. Karakoc, B. Karadag, I. Akpinar, S. Sirvanci, E. Dagli (Istanbul, Turkey)
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Six-minute walk distance in healthy North African children cannot be predicted using previous reference equations
H. Ben Saad, C. Prefaut, R. Missaoui, I. Hadj Mohamed, A. Zbidi, Z. Tabka, M. Hayot (Sousse, Tunisia; Montpellier, France)
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Physiological benefits of mechanical insufflation-exsufflation in children with neuromuscular diseases
B. Fauroux, G. Aubertin, E. Cohen, A. Clement, F. Lofaso (Paris, Garches, France)
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No clinical benefit for the use of respiratory system admittance to measure lung function in young children
S. Straszek, S. Stick, P. Sly, G. Hall (Perth, Australia; Aarhus, Denmark)
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Lung function in bronchopulmonary dysplasia: relationship with age and nutrition status
A. Meneguzzi, M. Sanchez-Solis, M. D. Pastor-Vivero, P. Mondejar-Lopez, J. Valverde-Molina, L. Garcia-Marcos (Murcia, Santiago de la Ribera, Spain)
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The safety, efficacy and utility of cold air challenge in UK schoolchildren
W. Carroll, C. Ian, B. Phillipa, C. Sadie, L. Warren (Derbyshire, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom)
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Respiratory efficiency in children with differences in oral/nasal respiration and presence of malocclusions
W. Szot, J. Lyszczarz, J. Kalukin (Krakow, Poland)
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Effects of spinal-thoracic deformities on respiratory function in patients with severe cerebral palsy
N. Mori, H. Kurosawa, M. Yosida, A. Hiramoto, N. Chiba, S. Nisiyama, Y. Tasaku, T. Satou, H. Fujii, E. Fukuda (Yamagata, Sendai, Asahikawa, Sendai/miyagi, Japan)
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Respiratory resistance measured by the interrupter technique: feasibility versus spirometry in 7 to 8 years children
S. Man, S. Tatar, M. Nanulescu (Cluj Napoca, Romania)
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A cardiopulmonary study on thalassemic children: relation to oxidant-antioxidant balance and iron overload
G. Agmy, A. Mohamed, M. Ghanem, H. Makhlouf, N. Abdel-Hafez, T. El-Metwally (Assiut, Egypt)
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Comparison of lung function tests in preschoolers with cystic fibrosis and healthy subjects
E. Hatziagorou, F. Kirvassilis, J. Tsanakas (Thessaloniki, Greece)
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