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PROGRAMME |
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| WEDNESDAY 5 NOVEMBER 2008 | |
| Room Prince Pierre | |
| 18.00-19.00 | Congress opening |
| 19.00-20.00 | Welcome Cocktail |
| THURSDAY 6 NOVEMBER 2008 | |
| Session 1 Room Camille Blanc |
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| 08.30-10.00 | BASIC MECHANISMS - Adult track • Innate immunity • Neurogenic pathways • Th-17 cell interaction with tissue cells • IgE and inflammation: implications in asthma and rhinitis |
| Session 2 Room Auric |
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| 08.30-10.00 | DIAGNOSIS OF ASTHMA IN CHILDREN - Pediatric track • Allergic diagnosis in asthma - PRACTALL • Pulmonary lung function from infancy to adulthood • Monitoring airway inflammation • Moulds and asthma |
Session 3 |
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| 08.30-10.00 | DIAGNOSIS OF ALLERGY AND ASTHMA • In vitro allergy diagnosis • Inflammatory parameters in respiratory allergy • Flow cytometry in airway inflammation • Exhaled breath temperature measurement |
| 10.00-10.15 | Coffee break |
| Plenary session 1 Room Camille Blanc |
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| 10.15-11.45 | FROM GENES TO THE ALLERGIC MARCH • Environment-gene interaction in the airways • Does remodeling exist in children? • B2-adrenoceptor polimorphysm • The allergic march: is time to reappraise it? |
| Plenary session 2 Room Prince Pierre |
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| 11.45-13.15 | EAACI SYMPOSIUM: Asthma exacerbations • Exacerbation vs. loss of asthma control • New viruses as cause of exacerbation • Innate immunity in the pathogenesis of virus-induced asthma exacerbation • Virus infection and reversal of tolerance to allergens in asthma exacerbations |
| Room Van Dongen | |
| 13.15-14.30 | Lunch and Lunchtime lecture Osteoporosis and bone fractures in the pneumological clinical practice: how to assess the risk and how to manage it ? |
| Symposium 1 Room Prince Pierre |
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| 14.30-16.00 | ASTHMA AND ALLERGY: Why are we still discussing them? Sponsored by an unrestricted educational grant of UCB |
| 16.00-16.15 | Tea break |
| Plenary session 3 Room Camille Blanc |
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| 16.15-17.45 | EPIDEMIOLOGY OF ASTHMA • Occupational aspects of respiratory diseases • Update on epidemiology of asthma • What have we learnt from ISAAC phase 3 • Socio-economic aspect in Europe and rest of the world |
| Session 4 Room Camille Blanc |
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| 17.45-19.15 | FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH ASTHMA - Adult track • Smooth muscle, asthma and obesity • Global warming and climatic changes and its impact on allergy and respiratory • Role of tobacco smoking in chronic respiratory diseases • Asthma in immigrants |
| Session 5 Room Auric |
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| 17.45-19.15 | RISK FACTORS AND CO-MORBIDITIES - Pediatric track • Hygiene hypothesis and airway inflammation • The role of indoor allergens • Food allergy and asthma • Rhinosinusitis in children |
| FRIDAY 7 NOVEMBER 2008 | |
| Session 6 Room Camille Blanc |
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| 08.30-10.00 | IS IT ASTHMA OR COPD? - Adult track • Controversies in the pathogenesis of COPD • Immunology of asthma and COPD • Asthma and COPD: similarities and differences • What is new in the treatment of COPD |
| Session 7 Room Auric |
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| 08.30-10.00 | PARTICULAR ASPECTS OF ASTHMA IN CHILDREN - Pediatric track • Recurrent cough and pertussis • Asthma severity and atopic eczema • Natural history of asthma from childhood to adulthood • Virus-induced asthma in children: what is new? |
| Session 8 Room Van Dongen |
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| 08.30-10.00 | SEVERE ASTHMA AND RISK FACTORS - Adult track • Asthma heterogeneity: different phenotypes • Sinusitis and asthma • NSAID and asthma: beyond sinus and polyps • Severe asthma: a different disease? |
| 10.00-10.15 | Coffee break |
| Plenary session 4 Room Prince Pierre |
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| 10.15-11.45 | INTERASMA-WAO SYMPOSIUM: Allergy and Asthma • Epithelial disfunction • Role of regulatory T cells in atopic and non atopic subjects • RSV and airway inflammation: implications for asthma • Immunological aspects of airways remodeling and possible modulation |
| Plenary session 5 Room Camille Blanc |
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| 11.45-13.15 | GARD: Global Alliance against chronic Respiratory Diseases • Global burden of chronic respiratory disease • Asthma in children: from epidemiology to action plan • COPD: present and future in the world • Public health interventions |
| 13.15-14.30 | Lunch and Lunchtime lecture |
| Symposium 2 Room Prince Pierre |
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| 14.30-16.00 | NEW PERSPECTIVES IN ASTHMA MANAGEMENT:
A chance beyond the central airways Sponsored by an unrestricted educational grant of UCB |
| 16.00-16.15 | Tea break |
| Plenary session 6 Room Prince Pierre |
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| 16.15-17.45 | GUIDELINES IN ASTHMA AND OTHER CRD 2008 • ARIA (Allergic Rhinitis and its Impact on asthma). An EBM approach 2008 • British guidelines for cough in children • GINA • ATS / ERS Guidelines on COPD |
| Session 9 Room Camille Blanc |
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| 17.45-19.15 | INHALED CORTICOSTEROIDS - Adult track • ICS in asthma and COPD: friends and foes • ICS as rescue medication in acute asthma • ICS in different guidelines • Choosing the right inhaler for patients with asthma |
| Session 10 Room Auric |
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| 17.45-19.15 | TREATMENT OF ASTHMA IN CHILDREN - Pediatric track • Is anti-microbial therapy an option to treat asthma/allergy? • Allergen avoidance: does it work in asthma? • Immunotherapy in rhinitis and asthma • Management of rhinitis in children with asthma |
| Session 11 Room Van Dongen |
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| 17.45-19.15 | EAACI SESSION • The pathogenesis of exercise-induced asthma in sport medicine • Diagnosis of asthma in sport and exercise medicine: lessons from the Olimpic games • The epidemiology and treatment of asthma in sport and exercise medicine • Rhinitis and asthma-like conditions in athletes |
| SATURDAY 8 NOVEMBER 2008 | |
| Session 12 Room Camille Blanc |
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| 08.30-10.00 | TREATMENT OF ASTHMA 2 - Adult track • The LABA controversy: revising the evidence • New drugs for asthma treatment • Severe refractory asthma: what do we need? • Ultra long-acting beta agonists |
| Session 13 Room Auric |
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| 08.30-10.30 | PHARMOCOLOGIC AND NON PHARMACOLOGIC
MANAGEMENT - Pediatric track • Leucotrienes receptor antagonist: alone or add-on • Barriers to adherence with pharmacotherapy • Management of acute asthma attack • QoL in childhood asthma: is the same than asthma control? |
| Session 14 Room Van Dongen |
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| 08.30-10.30 | MEDITERRANEAN THORACIC SOCIETY - INTERASMA SYMPOSIUM • Genetics in severe asthma • Asthma and air pollution |
| 10.30-10.45 | Coffee break |
| Semi Plenary session 1 Room Camille Blanc |
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| 10.45-12.45 | IMMUNOTHERAPY: present and future • EBM and immunotherapy: from study design to meta-analysis • Lessons from big SLIT trials • Immunological mechanisms of specific immunotherapy • Specific immunotherapy in childhood |
| Semi Plenary session 2 Room Van Dongen |
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| 10.45-12.45 | ASTHMA AROUND THE WORLD • Asthma in children in the Middle East • Mites, parasites and asthma in Latin America • Asthma in the developing world of Eastern Europe • Treating asthma in low-income groups in South Africa • Korea: Computer assisted easy asthma management |
| 12.45-13.00 | CLOSING OF THE MEETING |