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 and other environment-related lung diseases

Thematic Poster Session
Chairs: P. S. Burge (Birmingham, United Kingdom), E. Monso (08916 Badalona, Spain)
Occupation and COPD: an international ecological analysis
P. Blanc, A. Menezes, E. Plana, D. Mannino, P. Hallal, K. Toren, M. Eisner, J. P. Zock (San Francisco, CA, Lexington, KY, United States Of America; Pelotas/RS, Brazil; Barcelona/Catalunya, Spain; Goteborg, Sweden)
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COPD prevalence in workers exposed to nitrous gas
B. Boggia, R. Ferrucci, L. Romano, F. Napolano, E. Farinaro, U. Carbone (Naples, Italy)
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COPD in rubber industry workers: what is the main cause?
R. Akhmetov, O. Vasilyeva, T. Pashkova, E. Gushina, S. Israfilova (Moscow, Russian Federation)
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COPD in Sheffield; an epidemiological study of workplace influence
J. Waterhouse, A. Darby, C. Billings, V. Stevens, J. Wight, P. Blanc, F. David (Sheffield, United Kingdom; San Francisco, United States Of America)
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Congress or journal article abstractE-poster
COPD in Sheffield; influence of socioeconomic status on response rates and occupational exposures
J. Waterhouse, A. Darby, C. Billings, V. Stevens, J. Wight, D. Fishwick (Sheffield, United Kingdom)
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Congress or journal article abstractE-poster
Occupational exposure in alpha-1-antitrypsin deficiency (AATD)
A. Wood, S. Semple, J. Ayres, R. Stockley (Birmingham, Aberdeen, United Kingdom)
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Vitamin A in the lung injury induced by wooden dust. experimental studies
D. Surcel, M. Botoc, A. David, M. Butan, A. Sarbu (Cluj Napoca, Romania)
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Effects of losartan on diesel exhaust¢s enhancement of antigen induced airway hyperresponsiveness
I. L. Dumitriu, B. Gurzu, B. C. Petrescu, M. Dinca, S. M. Slatineanu, M. Costuleanu, G. Petrescu, B. Constantin (Iasi, Romania)
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Long-term effects of an educational intervention on exhaled nitric oxide in farmers with occupational asthma
H. Dressel, C. Gross, D. de la Motte, J. Sültz, R. Jörres, D. Nowak (Munich, Neusaess, Germany)
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Allergenicity of the predator mites Amblyseius cucumeris and Phytoseiulus persimilis
J. Baelum, P. Larsen, G. Doekes, A. Enkegaard, P. S. Skov, T. Sigsgaard (Odense C, Flakkebjerg, Copenhage N, Aarhus C, Denmark; Utrecht, Netherlands)
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Coir worker‘s asthma – is it immunological in origin?
V. Panicker, T. S. Dhanya, E. Mathayi (Alappuzha, India)
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Congress or journal article abstractE-poster
Lung function and occupational dust exposure
H. Moshammer, K. Hochgatterer, C. Angerschmid, H. P. Hutter (Vienna, Perg, Austria)
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Congress or journal article abstractE-poster
DNA damage in macrophages caused by exposure nanoparticles at an air/tissue interface
A. Tellabati, P. Howes, D. Jones, J. Grigg (Leicester, London, United Kingdom)
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Quantitative biokinetics of gold nanoparticles (NP) between 1.4 and 200 nm administered either to the lungs, blood or gut of rats
M. Semmler-Behnke, J. Lipka, S. Takenaka, W. Parak, U. Simon, G. Schmid, W. Brandau, W. G. Kreyling (Munich, Marburg, Aachen, Essen, Germany)
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DNA damage of murine peripheral blood monocytes and histopathologic changes of murine lung induced by Asian dust particles
S. H. Jeong, J. W. Park, C. H. An, S. Y. Kyung, Y. J. Kim, J. K. Lee, T. H. Lee (Incheon, Republic Of Korea)
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Congress or journal article abstract
Lung damage induced by ozone and copper or zinc sulphate in rats: influence of the sequence of exposure
C. Medina, N. Dussaubat, M. E. Miller, P. Diaz, S. Gonzalez, M. Oyarzun (Santiago, Chile)
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Congress or journal article abstractE-poster
Victims of burns from domestic fires – lung pathology of severe mechanical obstruction
O. Petris, A. Petris, L. Sorodoc, C. Lionte, C. Bologa, P. Scripcariu (Iasi, Romania)
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Serum levels of chitotriosidase in pulmunary sarcoidosis
G. Lombardo, S. Isola, G. Lombardo, C. Crea, L. Giannetto (Messina, Italy)
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