Annual Congress Munich 2006

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"Inflammometry": an alternative strategy in the management of airways disease

Symposium
Chairs: I. Pavord (Leicester, United Kingdom), E. Eber (Graz, Austria)
Aims: This symposium will:
• give an overview over both established methods and future perspectives;
• discuss their respective clinical and research applications in different respiratory disorders. Target audience: Respiratory clinicians and nurses with an interest in the long-term management of patients with airways disease, notably asthma and COPD, research scientists with an interest in the clinical applications of airway inflammation measurements, paediatricians, paediatric pulmonologists, paediatrics and paediatric pulmonology fellows.

Assessing inflammation non invasively: induced sputum, fractional exhaled nitric oxide concentration (FeNO), exhaled breath condensate (EBC) A. Zacharasiewicz (Vienna, Austria)
Exhaled NO in the long-term management of asthma a review of the evidence J. C. De Jongste (Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
The new paradigm: assessing airway inflammation rather than diagnostic labelling is a movement not a fad I. Pavord (Leicester, United Kingdom)