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PROGRAMME
SESSION ONE
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ANNUAL MEETING OF THE IRISH THORACIC SOCIETY • 11 - 12 November 2005 • WESTWOOD HOUSE HOTEL, GALWAY ANNUAL MEETING OF THE IRISH THORACIC SOCIETY • 11 - 12 November 2005 • WESTWOOD HOUSE HOTEL, GALWAY
SESSION PROGRAMME ONE
3.37 Thalidomide treatment in chronic lung infection
Y Gunning, N Hopkins, P McLoughlin
UCD, School of Medicine & Medical Science, Conway Institute
3.38 Elafin modulates lipopolysaccharide signalling in monocytes
MW Butler, CC Taggart, I Robertson, CM Greene, SJ O’Neill, NG McElvaney
Respiratory Research Division, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Education
and Research Centre, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin
3.39 Hypoxic induction of proliferation in primary human lung fibroblasts: potential
implications in pulmonary fibrosis
AB Byrne, L Li, SC Donnelly, JA Baugh
Dept of Medicine and Therapeutics, The Conway Institute for Biomolecular and
Biomedical Research, University College Dublin
3.40 Congenital Tracheo-Oesophageal Fistula: an unusual cause of recurrent RTIs in
an adult
B Kent, D O’Callaghan, D Breen, F O’Connell
CResT Directorate, St James’s Hospital, Dublin
MALIGNANCY / TECHNIQUES
3.41 Angiosarcoma arising from the right atrium: an usual case of recurrent
pulmonary embolism
DS O’Callaghan, 1 DP Breen, 1 B Kent, 1 CJ D’Adhemar, 2 M Higgins, 3 F O’Connell, 1
V Young 1
1. CResT Directorate, LabMed Directorate; 2. HOPE Directorate;
3. St James’s Hospital, Dublin
3.42 St James’ Lung Cancer Audit 2004
M Devlin, R Luddy, F O’Connell
St James’s Multidisciplinary Thoracic Oncology Group
3.43 Managing mesothelioma: a study of local experience
N Chapman, MA McCann, J Frazer, RP Convery
Air Lab, Craigavon Area Hospital
3.44 Five year audit of Abrams Pleural Biopsy
B Kent, D Breen, D O’Calaghan, F O’Connell
CResT Directorate, St James’s Hospital, Dublin
3.45 Single surgeons audit of carinal resections
K Doddakula, T Akbar, M El Siddig, A Raza, V Young
Dept of Cardiothoracic Surgery, St James’s Hospital, Dublin
3.46 Malignant chest wall tumours and tumours invading the chest wall: Surgical
techniques and results
K Doddakula, W Ahmed, T Akbar, I Chong, V Young
Dept of Cardiothoracic Surgery, St James’s Hospital, Dublin
3.47 Role of Vascular reconstruction in the resection of thoracic malignancy
K Doddakula, W Ahmed, T Akbar, I Chong, V Young
Dept of Cardiothoracic Surgery, St James’s Hospital, Dublin
15.30 – 16.00 AFTERNOON TEA/COFFEE — Exhibition Area
SPONSORED BY ASTRAZENECA
Irish Thoracic Society Lecture (16.00 – 17.00)
Guest Lecturer
Professor Tim O’Brien, Professor of Medicine, Dept of Medicine NUIG and
Director of the REMEDI Programme
‘Prospects for gene therapy in lung disease’
Chairperson
Professor Gerry McElvaney, Professor of Medicine RCSI
Irish Thoracic Society AGM & Council Meeting (17.00 – 18.00)
19.30 WINE RECEPTION
SPONSORED BY BOC VITALAIR
20.00 GALA DINNER
SPONSORED BY ACTELION PHARMACEUTICALS
Saturday, 12th November 2005
Session 4: Lung Injury / Inflammation (9.00 – 10.30)
— Robert Martin Suite
Chairpersons
Clare O’Connor,Conway Institute,UCD
Prof Shane O’Neill, RCSI
9.00 4.1 Hypercapnia does not attenuate oxidation in the endotoxin induced acute
lung injury
A Nichol, D O’Croinin, F Naughton, P McLoughlin
University College Dublin, School of Medicine and Medical Sciences
9.12 4.2 Up-regulation of matrix metalloproteases and cathepsins by neutrophile
elastase: a novel hierarchy in protease regulation
M Rogan, P Geraghty, C Greene, M Brantly, C Taggart, S O’Neill, NG McElvaney
Pulmonary research Division, RCSI, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin and
Dept of Medicine, University of Florida, USA
IRISH JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE • VOLUME 174 • NUMBER 4 • SUPPLEMENT 3
IRISH JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCE • VOLUME 174 • NUMBER 4 • SUPPLEMENT 3