Noninvasive monitoring of airway inflammation: beyond exhaled nitric oxide
Symposium Chairs: S. Loukides (Athens, Greece), S. Kharitonov (London, United Kingdom)
Aims: The specific aims of the symposium are to: emphasise how noninvasive monitoring of airway inflammation can improve the management of patients with airway inflammatory diseases; present the different techniques for assessing airway inflammation, their advantages and limitations; point out the potential clinical applications of developing techniques (e.g. exhaled breath condensate and artificial nose) and established techniques (e.g. exhaled nitric oxide) for assessing airway inflammation, which are moving toward availability in the clinical setting; and provide an update on the methodology of exhaled breath condensate and artificial nose, and present new analytical applications used in these techniques such as mass spectrometry.