PG5 The small airways in lung diseases

Postgraduate Course
Chairs: D.S. Postma (Groningen, The Netherlands), J. Hogg (Vancouver, Canada)
Aims: The aim of this session is to: increase knowledge and awareness on the topic of small airways in asthma and in COPD; appreciate the role of small airways in the pathophysiology of asthma and COPD; describe improved methods for physiological assessment of the small airways; show the recent advances in imaging of the small airways; and to review the studies demonstrating the added benefit of treatments able to reach the distal lung in the management of asthma and COPD patients.
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ADULT: B.1 Airway diseases.

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Pathophysiology of the small airways M. Saetta (Padova, Italy)
How to evaluate the periphery: biological, functional and imaging assessments N. Scichilone (Palermo, Italy)
Imaging of the small airways defines their importance in disease S. Siddiqui (Leicester, United Kingdom)
Treating the small airways O. S. Usmani (London, United Kingdom)