Annual Congress Vienna 2009

Saturday, 12.09.2009
Sunday, 13.09.2009
Monday, 14.09.2009
Tuesday, 15.09.2009
Wednesday, 16.09.2009

Citations should be made in the following way: Authors. Title. Eur Respir J 2009; 34: Suppl. 53, abstract number.

Material from 2009:

4047 Abstracts
652 Slide presentations
300 Webcasts
93 Handouts
2150 e-posters
300 Multimedia files

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Difficult asthma in children: diagnostic and therapeutic challenges

Oral Presentation
Chairs: J. Wildhaber (Fribourg, Switzerland), M. Pynenburg (Rotterdam, Netherlands)

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Comparison of inflammatory markers and chest CT scan findings in difficult-to-control asthma in children P. Kenia, M. McFeeters, E. Gaillard, H. Pandya (Leicester, United Kingdom)
Fatal and near-fatal asthma in children: a two-year nationwide survey in Germany M. Wisbauer, W. Luise, A. Schuster (Düsseldorf, Germany)
Non-invasive markers of inflammation as a measurement of corticosteroid responsiveness in children with severe asthma (sa) C. Bossley, S. Saglani, L. Fleming, N. Wilson, L. Tsartsali, A. Bush (London, United Kingdom)
Ciclosporin as a steroid sparing agent in children with difficult to treat asthma L. Chapell, C. Tranter, T. Hilliard (Bristol, United Kingdom)
Association of adrenal response in asthmatic children on inhaled steroids with polymorphisms in the genes of glucocorticoid receptor (GR) and corticotropin releasing hormone receptor 1 (CRHR1) L. Tsartsali, M. Papadopoulos, E. Lagona, A. Papadimitriou, C. Kanaka-Gantenbein, M. Kambouris, G. Chrousos, K. Priftis (Athens, Greece)
Relationship between induced sputum eosinophilia and endothelial dysfunction in children with bronchial asthma Y. Antipkin, V. Lapshyn, T. Umanets, A. Nakonechna (Kyiv, Ukraine; Liverpool, United Kingdom)
Omalizumab therapy reduces asthma exacerbations in children with severe allergic (IgE-mediated) asthma irrespective of lung function at baseline J. Bousquet, M. Kulus, H. Fox, M. Blogg, A. Fowler-Taylor, C. Fernandez-Vidaurre (Montpellier, France; Warsaw, Poland; West Sussex, United Kingdom; East Hanover, United States Of America)
Value of home spirometry to diagnose asthma in children with chronic respiratory symptoms of unknown origin A. Brouwer, C. Visser, E. Duiverman, P. Brand (Groningen, Zwolle, Netherlands)