CC7 Severe asthma

Challenging clinical cases
Chairs: A. Spanevello (Milan, Italy)
Aims: Access educational materials here
To present challenging cases of patients with severe asthma and comorbidity. It will address disease-specific challenges, including issues with compliance and risk management. To describe how the diagnosis was made and the pathogenetic mechanisms that may be involved. To increase also the knowledge about patients with severe asthma and the treatment approaches available.

Case 1 P. Chanez (Marseille, France)
Case 2 S. Fowler (Preston (Lancashire), United Kingdom)
Eosinophilic otitis media and eosinophilic asthma; shared pathophysiology and response to anti-IL5 M. Drijver-Messelink (Groningen, Netherlands)
Asthma evolution before and after diagnosis and treatment for Chronic eosinophilic leukemia C. Calarasu (Craiova (Dolj), Romania)
ABPA diagnosis in a late onset, difficult to treat, asthma in a 84 year-old female K. Eleftheriou (Athens, Greece)