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: J. Stocks (London, United Kingdom), G. Hall (Perth, Australia)

Ventilatory response to hypercarbia in newborns of smoking and substance abusing mothers K. Ali, R. Bhat, K. Wolff, S. Hannam, G. Rafferty, A. Greenough (London, United Kingdom)
The acute effect of surgical repair of mitral valve insufficiency on airway and respiratory tissue mechanics and pulmonary hemodynamics in children I. Malaspinas, L. Chok, M. Beghetti, W. Habre, F. Petak (Geneva, Switzerland; Szeged, Hungary)
Reversibility of airway obstruction to diagnose asthma in children using forced oscillations: Inspiration, expiration does it matter? I. Ioan, S. Varechova, C. Bonabel, T. Le Tuan, C. Schweitzer, F. Marchal (Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France)
Regional pulmonary function testing by electrical impedance tomography in healthy children and children with asthma B. Vogt, G. Elke, P. von Bismarck, T. Ankermann, N. Weiler, I. Frerichs (Germany)
Ventilation inhomogeneity in children with cystic fibrosis and primary ciliary dyskinesia K. Green, F. Buchvald, A. Madsen, P. Gustafsson, K.G. Nielsen (Copenhagen, Denmark; Skövde, Sweden)
Ways to shorten the lung clearance index measurement ΙΙ – How long to wash? F. Singer, S. Yammine, C. Abbas, M. Roos, P. Latzin (Bern, Switzerland)
Association of sitting/standing height ratio and FEV₁ in multi-ethnic school children: The Size and Lung Function in Children (SLIC) study S. Lum, J. Kirkby, R. Bonner, S. Sonnappa, A. Wade, E. Raywood, S. Lee, D. Bailey, J. Stocks (London, United Kingdom)