Annual Congress Berlin 2008

Citations should be made in the following way: Authors. Title. Eur Respir J 2008; 32: Suppl. 52, abstract number.

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Chairs: P. Bonniaud (Dijon, France), V. Kouritas (Larissa, Greece)

Serum and pleural albumin gradient and brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) levels in the diagnosis of cardiac and non-cardiac pleural effusions R. Sales, L. Antonangelo, M. Acencio, E. Genofre, L. Teixeira, F. Vargas, J. Fabri Junior (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Role of serum and pleural fluid NT-proBNP levels in identifying pleural effusion due to heart failure M. Bayram, G. Ozkan, E. Oztekin, N. D. Bakan, S. Bes, A. Gur, G. Camsari (Istanbul, Turkey)
Diagnostic value of NT-proBNP levels in differentiation of cardiac origin of pleural effusions E. Seyhan, S. Altin, E. Cetinkaya, S. Sokucu, A. Gencoglu, P. Korkmaz (Istanbul, Turkey)
Chest drain size: what advice can we justify? M. Evison, S. Grundy, J. Miles (Manchester, United Kingdom)
Efficacy of intrapleural streptokinase use in complicated parapneumonic pleural effusions and empyema G. Okumus, S. Karaosman, E. Kiyan, H. Issever, O. Arseven (Istanbul, Turkey)
Pleural fluid IL-6 levels in the identification of the complicated parapneumonic pleural effusion A. Christopoulos, I. Katsarou, L. Panteli, P. Stratopoulos (Patras, Zante, Greece)
Diagnostic utility of thyroid transcription factor (TTF1) expression in pleural effusions C. Nepka, M. Karadana, S. Barbanis, D. Makris, F. Karasavidou, K. I. Gourgoulianis, G. Koukoulis (Larisa, Greece)