Severe asthma: reviewing the last decade and looking to the next. A report of the ERS/ATS Task Force
Symposium Chairs: R. Djukanovic (Southampton, United Kingdom), L. Heaney (Belfast, United Kingdom), K. Ohta (Tokyo, Japan)
Aims: During this session, we will review:
- the progress made in last 10 years in our understanding of severe asthma
- the future directions for research in the next 10 years in severe asthma
- the consensus recommendations for the definition of severe asthma
- the evaluation and biomarkers for severe asthma
- the approach to phenotyping the disease
- the therapeutic approaches for severe asthma.