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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Pathophysiology of respiratory diseases

E-Communication Session
Chairs: P. Sly (Perth, Australia), Z. Hantos (Szeged, Hungary)
Large airways remodeling in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients
L. Pini, V. Pinelli, D. Modina, M. Bezzi, P. Foccoli, F. Facchetti, C. Tantucci, M. S. Ludwig (Brescia, Italy; Montreal, Canada)
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Prevalence of expiratory flow limitation in a cohort of healthy elderly subjects
F. Cortijo, L. Bertoletti, F. Roche, J. C. Barthelemy (St Etienne cedex2, France)
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Airway wall thickness and lung function in patients with asthma
J. Kosciuch, K. Gorska, M. Zukowska, R. Krenke, T. Przybylowski, K. Hildebrand, R. Chazan (Warsaw, Poland)
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Gastric emptying and antral motility in response to a liquid meal in stable-state asthma
C. Ranasinha, L. Amarasiri, J. De Silva (Ragama, Sri Lanka)
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Reduction in total lung capacity in obese men: role of intrathoracic fat
A. Watson, P. Ind, N. Pride, J. Bell, L. Thomas (London, United Kingdom)
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Effects of bone marrow mononuclear cell therapy in an experimental model of acute lung injury
M. Morales, L. F. Prota, R. Lassance, T. Maron-Gutierrez, R. Castiglione, C. Baez-Garcia, S. Abreu, P. Rocco (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
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Long-term physical training leads to airway remodeling in animal model
L. Pini, C. Torregiani, D. Modina, E. Paracchino, F. Facchetti, F. Esposito, C. Tantucci (Brescia, Milano, Italy)
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Congress or journal article abstractE-poster
Vitamin C decreases the permeability of sheep pleura
E. Gogou, C. Hatzoglou, V. Chamos, T. Kerenidi, A. Katsampeki, E. Dalaveris, K. Gourgoulianis, P. A. Molyvdas (Larisa, Greece)
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Effects of asthmatic serum on airway smooth muscle cell polarity and migration
J. Stephen, K. Radford, N. Spitale, P. Nair (Hamilton, ON, Canada)
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Arginase inhibition modulates lung strip mechanics in animals with chronic pulmonary inflammation
L. Aristóteles, C. Starling, C. Prado, E. Leick-Maldonado, M. Dolhnikoff, M. Martins, I. Tibério (São Paulo – SP, Brazil)
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Physical stress modulates distal lung tissue mechanics, inflammation and remodelling associated to iNOS and oxidative stress activation
F. Reis, C. Starling, R. dos Reis, F. Alves, E. Leick-Maldonado, T. Lanças, M. Dolhnikoff, C. Prado, M. Martins, I. Tibério (São Paulo, Brazil)
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Crackle sound vs pressure-volume curve in the monitoring of recruitment during TLC manoeuvres in ventilated patients
A. Lorx, M. Donga, Z. Hantos (Budapest, Szeged, Hungary)
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Airway wall thickness and lung function in patients with COPD
J. Kosciuch, K. Gorska, M. Zukowska, R. Krenke, T. Przybylowski, K. Hildebrand, R. Chazan (Warsaw, Poland)
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Congress or journal article abstractE-poster
Mucus secretion by tracheal submucosal glands is induced by relaxing not by stretching
S. J. Schließmann, M. J. Hug, J. Ganesan, S. Schumann, J. Guttmann (Freiburg, Germany)
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Congress or journal article abstractE-poster
Pulmonary mechanics and lung histology in a model of leptospirosis
F. B. Santos, R. A. Cadete, C. P. Passaro, I. Siqueira, A. Ko, P. R. M. Rocco, D. S. Faffe, W. A. Zin (Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, Brazil)
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Increase in lung compliance and FRC but not residual volume in elastase-treated mice: a follow-up study
Z. Hantos, G. Albu, M. Szabari, A. Adamicza, B. Suki (Szeged, Hungary; Boston, MA, United States Of America)
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Uncoupling between oxygen availability and resting energy expenditure in COPD: implication in wasting
S. Baldi, P. Poggi, E. Venegoni, R. Aquilani (Montescano (Pavia), Italy)
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Congress or journal article abstract
The impact of human Met11Thr single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) on morphology of SP-D deficient mice
L. Knudsen, K. Wucherpfenning, S. Hawgood, A. M. Gillespie, J. Madsen, M. Ochs (Bern, Switzerland; San Francisco, United States Of America; Southampton, United Kingdom)
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Lung damage in chronic hypoxic rats and antagonistic effects of aminophylline on the damage
H. Zhang, H. Zhang, B. Pang, C. Xia, S. Niu (Beijing, China)
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Fluctuating filling characteristics of the lung
C. Grant, T. Pham, A. Schibler (South Brisbane, QLD, Australia)
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