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RESPIRATORY
ISSN 2054-3166 October 2013 • emjreviews.com
INSIDE
Review of the
ERS Annual Congress 2013
Barcelona, Spain
CONTENTS
EDITORIAL PANEL................................................................................................................................... 4
CONGRESS REVIEW................................................................................................................................ 8
• Review of the Annual ERS Congress, held in Barcelona, Spain,
7th-11th September 2013
POOR ASTHMA CONTROL, DEVICE HANDLING AND PHENOTYPE................................. 30
• Roberto Rodiguez-Roisin, Christian Virchow, Cynthia Rand, Richard Dekhuijzen,
Michael Wechsler
LONG-TERM NON-INVASIVE VENTILATION (NIV) FOR COPD PATIENTS WITH
CHRONIC RESPIRATORY FAILURE .....
RESPIRATORY ISSN 2054-3166
CONTENTS EDITORIAL PANEL.......................
RESPIRATORY ASTHMA IN PREGNANCY................
EDITORIAL BOARD RESPIRATORY Dr Peter Barnes He
Welcome It gives me great pleasure to welcome you
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Foreword Professor Nicholas Hill
ERS ANNUAL CONGRESS 2013 CONVENTION CENTRE DE GRA
Welcome to the European Medical Journal review of
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Congress being over for another year, we are stil
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ERS relaunches White Book ‘THE EUROPEAN
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Kicking the habit: e-cigarettes versus nicotine p
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to improve the situation for patie
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Lead author Dr Francisco Campos-Rodriguez, from t
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Cancer breathalyser: Diagnosing lung cancer via p
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Obstructive lung disease patients experience cogn
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From a host of fourteen therapeutical areas, EURO
POOR ASTHMA CONTROL, DEVICE HANDLING
that are ‘inhalation experts’ due to patients who
after one-on-one instruction this increased
successful treatment in 19.7% of patients in the
may be more than they need for their personal fee
number of asthma hospitalisations and emergency r
and objective data in 5-to 12-year-old children w
Asthma treatment failure with symptom
The impact of adherence with thera
3) using patient adherence levels and patterns to
Patient has uncontrolled asthma and/or Frequent
syndrome etc.39 Another consideration is tha
Patient Conscious inhalation possible Consci
be addressed, but additional new therapies need t
the patients with stable asthma controlled with m
integrin may contribute to the increased activati
FEV /FVC (forced vital capacity) ratio, peak flow,
asthma in 61 patients.76 The patients were treate
process for measuring sputum cell counts requires
Question: What do the other speakers think about
unique barriers and the phenotype underlying the
12. Price D, et al. Inhaler competence in asthma:
61. Wenzel SE. Asthma: defining of the persistent
CALL FOR PAPERS IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN SUBMITT
LONG-TERM NON-INVASIVE VENTILATION (NIV) FOR C
COPD also places a significant demand
Table 1. NIV in chronic hypercapnic COPD: RCTs wi
•Improved survival, sleep-related hypercapnia and
*6MWD: 6 minute walking distance; COPD: chronic o
Table 2. NIV in chronic hypercapnic COPD: non-ran
able to significantly improve PaCO and work of
2000;118(6):1582-90. 24. Clini E, Sturani C, Ross
Thorax. 2004;59(12):1020-5. 61. Windisch W, Walte
From a host of fourteen therapeutical areas, EURO
EFFECTIVENESS OF INHALER DEVICES IN ADULT
can be used with spacers, and breath-actuated pMD
90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 81
on the criteria used to define proper technique. F
inhalation technique: research to improve inhaler
Of note, some testing and training devices have b
7. Leach CL, Davidson PJ, Boudreau RJ. Impr
Respir J. 2011;20:92–6. 42. Bynum A, Hopkins
BRONCHOSCOPIC NITINOL COIL IMPLANTATION: A NEW
Over the past decade, there have been significant
measured using radiopaque markers on the guide wi
Table 1. Main inclusion criteria for three publis
Table 2. Results of three published studies on LV
During the next 2 months, and until completion of
applying this treatment into routine clinical pra
COPD NOCTURNAL DESATURATOR PATIENTS WITH OB
INTRODUCTION Chronic obstructive pulmonary disea
oxidative stress obesity with airway closure gas
showed that clinical parameter predictors, when a
Figure 2. Simultaneous recording of nocturnal oxi
leading to relative hypoxaemia. Risk of sle
in NREM sleep in hypercapnic chronic obstructive
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BRONCHIAL ALLERGEN CHALLENGES IN ASTHMA RESEARCH
In comparison with human models, the mouse
Table 1. Low dose challenges and symptoms. Clinic
challenge mild asthmatics who were allergic
8. Corazza N, Kaufmann T. Novel insights into me
ASTHMA IN PREGNANCY István Ivancsó, Anikó Bohács,
Controlling trophoblast invasion and vascul
lymphocyte activation that characterises asthma.2
Table 1. The already established immunological ch
PREGNANCY-INDUCED CHANGES IN ASTHMA CONTROL As
Pharmacological therapy Because safety data of
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RECOMBINANT ALLERGENS IN DIAGNOSIS AND
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OLEA POLLEN ALLERGY Olive (Olea europaea) pollen
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al. The IgE repertoire in children and adolescent
the pollen pan-allergen profilin. Is the detection
PHARMACOLOGICAL TREATMENT OF IDIOPATHIC
suppress inflammatory or immune responses,
Figure 2. High-resolution computed tomography (HR
Azathioprine, an antimetabolite, blocks most T ce
ANTIOXIDANTS The IFIGENIA (Idiopathic Pulmo
390 patients, confirmed that treatment with I
of pulmonary arterial hypertension.31,32 In a sma
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NOVEL TREATMENT OPTIONS FOR AUTOIMMUNE
autoantibody measurement could be a clinical tool
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Randomisation 1st level control group (WLL)
Initial failure of the GM-CSF inhalation seems to
Acknowledgement This paper was, in part, suppo
Pulmonol. 2008;43(8):828–30. 29. Bonfield TL, Kavu
ADVANCES IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF TUBERCULOSIS AND
(of 3 weeks or more), sputum production (sometime
diagnosed bacteriologically, therefore the qualit
PCR is the first developed method. There are two c
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