Airway transplantation and thermoplasty

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Chairs: N. Thomson (Glasgow, United Kingdom), C. Marquette (Nice, France)
Aims: - Describe the rationale behind and the technique of bronchial thermoplasty; outline short and long term safety of bronchial thermoplasty; explain the key clinical investigations of bronchial thermoplasty, including key efficacy results; provide an update in the progress made in the area of airway transplantation and tissue engineering; indicate gaps in the biological understanding and clinical applications of airway transplantation.

Bronchial thermoplasty: what is it and how does it work? P. Shah (London, United Kingdom)
Clinical transplantation of a tissue-engineered airway P. Delaere (Leuven, Belgium)