Persistent asthma: still an uncontrolled disease requiring new treatments strategies in 2009

Oral Presentation
Chairs: N. Thomson (Glasgow, United Kingdom), H. Reddel (Camperdown, Australia)
Efficacy of bronchial thermoplasty (BT) in patients with severe asthma: the AIR2 trial
G. Cox, A. Rubin, M. Laviolette, I. Pavord, N. Thomson (Hamilton, Quebec, Canada; Porto Alegre, Brazil; Leicester, Glasgow, United Kingdom)
Congress or journal article abstract
Congress or journal article abstract
Patients with persistent asthma may have poor disease control despite normal lung function: baseline data from a pan-European real-life study
R. Buhl, M. Aubier, T. Ekstrom, J. Haughney, J. Ostinelli, C. P. van Schayck, O. Selroos (Mainz, Germany; Paris, Rueil Malmaison, France; Sodertalje, Angelholm, Sweden; Aberdeen, United Kingdom; Maastricht, Netherlands)
Congress or journal article abstract
Congress or journal article abstract
Immunological effectiveness of atorvastatin in complex therapy of severe persistent bronchial asthma
Y. Feshchenko, L. Iashyna, N. Kramarskaya, M. Polianska, J. Matvienko (Kiev, Ukraine)
Congress or journal article abstractSlide presentationE-poster
Congress or journal article abstractSlide presentationE-poster
Asthma control in a national asthma program
T. K. Lim, H. P. Cheong (Singapore, Singapore)
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Congress or journal article abstractSlide presentation
Airway inflammatory mediators and airway wall remodelling in asthma
K. Górska, R. Krenke, J. Kosciuch, P. Korczynski, M. Zukowska, J. Domagala-Kulawik, R. Chazan (Warsaw, Poland)
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Congress or journal article abstractSlide presentationE-poster
Omalizumab in patients with allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis (ABPA): a multicenter case series study in Spain
M. D. C. Vennera, O. Asensio, P. Ausín, L. Borderías, C. Fernández, C. Granel, J. Guallar, M. Marín, A. Parra, A. Pérez, M. Rubio (Barcelona, Sabadell (Barcelona), Huesca, Madrid, Castellón, A Coruña, Spain)
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Congress or journal article abstractSlide presentation
Asthma control in Latin america (LA) and Caribbean (CAR) countries: correlation between asthma control test (ACT), FEV1 and current treatment
R. J. Gené, J. D. Antuni, F. Sano, E. Carrasco, A. A. Navarro Rojas, G. Levy (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
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Congress or journal article abstractSlide presentation
Patient characteristics to determine an appropriate maintenance dose of budesonide/formoterol maintenance and reliever therapy
J. Haughney, M. Aubier, R. Buhl, T. Ekstrom, J. Ostinelli, C. P. van Schayck, O. Selroos (Aberdeen, United Kingdom; Paris, Rueil Malmaison, France; Mainz, Germany; Sodertalje, Angelholm, Sweden; Maastricht, Netherlands)
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Congress or journal article abstract