Airway diseases
PG12 Postgraduate course
Recent advances in small airways diseases in patients with asthma and COPD
Clinical
Registration for this session is additional to the congress registration fee and is €137.5 standard and €154 on site.
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.
Target audience :
Clinical researcher, General practitioner, Lung function technologist, Nurse, Pathologist, Physiologist, Physiotherapist, Radiologist, Student, Trainee, Adult pulmonologist/Clinician
Methods :
Imaging, Physiology, Pulmonary function testing
14:00
The clinical importance of small airway involvement in patients with asthma and COPD
M. van den Berge(Groningen, Netherlands)
COI
1
131
14:30
Recent advances in physiological assessment of small airways diseases
S. Verbanck(Bruxelles, Belgium)
COI
2
132
15:00
New approaches in lung imaging to characterise small airways diseases
S. Desai(London, United Kingdom)
COI
3
133
16:00
Latest insights into treatment of small airways diseases
O. Usmani(London, United Kingdom)
COI
5
135
16:30
Group assignment
M. van den Berge(Groningen, Netherlands)
COI
S. Verbanck(Bruxelles, Belgium)
COI
S. Desai(London, United Kingdom)
COI
O. Usmani(London, United Kingdom)
COI
6
136
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