Annual Congress Vienna 2012

Citations should be made in the following way: Authors. Title. Eur Respir J 2012; 40: Suppl. 56, abstract number.

Oral Presentation
Chairs: M. Miravitlles (Barcelona, Spain), S. Sethi (Buffalo, United States of America)

Dynamic changes of serum sTREM-1 and its gene polymorphisms associated with sepsis prognosis L. Su, L. Xie, Z. Jiang, X. Zhang, D. Feng (Sanya, Beijing, China)
Vitamin D level predicts clinical outcome in community-acquired pneumonia H. Remmelts, E. van de Garde, S. Meijvis, E. Peelen, J. Damoiseaux, J. Grutters, D. Biesma, W. J. Bos, G. Rijkers (Nieuwegein, Utrecht, Ede, Maastricht, Sittard, Netherlands)
Obesity is associated with improved outcome in community-acquired pneumonia A. Singanayagam, A. Singanayagan, A. Hill, J.D. Chalmers (London, United Kingdom)
Cigarette smoke extract (CSE) alters the secretion profile of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain PA14 N. Mushtaq, R. Waite, J. Aduse-Opoku, J. Grigg (London, United Kingdom)
Obesity and outcomes in patients hospitalized for pneumonia S. Kahlon, D.T. Eurich, R.S. Padwal, A.M. Malhotra, J.K. Minhas-Sandhu, T.J. Marrie, S.R. Majumdar (Edmonton, Canada)
Bacterial prevalence and load during COPD exacerbation and recovery D. Garcha, A. Patel, A. Mackay, R. Singh, T. McHugh, G. Donaldson, J. Wedzicha (London, United Kingdom)
Acute respiratory infections in lung transplant recipients: Use of a novel multiplex-PCR assay F.C. Ringshausen, G. Rohde, M. Panning, J. Rademacher, M. Greer, K. Olsson, T. Welte, J. Gottlieb (Hanover, Freiburg, Germany; Maastricht, Netherlands)