PG12 Recent advances in small airways diseases in patients with asthma and COPD

Postgraduate Course
Chairs: M. Cazzola (Roma (RM), Italy), M. Bonini (Rome, Italy)
Aims: to provide an update on recent research into the increasing importance of small airways diseases in patients with asthma and COPD; to describe new developments in the assessment of small airways diseases using physiological and imaging methods; to provide an update on evidence for the clinical impact of small airways diseases on patient-related outcomes and to highlight recent data regarding treatment targeted at small airways diseases and how this relates to clinical outcomes.

The clinical importance of small airway involvement in patients with asthma and COPD M. van den Berge (Groningen, Netherlands)
Recent advances in physiological assessment of small airways diseases S. Verbanck (Bruxelles, Belgium)
New approaches in lung imaging to characterise small airways diseases S. Desai (London, United Kingdom)
Latest insights into treatment of small airways diseases O. Usmani (London, United Kingdom)