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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
9.24 4.3 Endoplasmic reticulum stress-induced apoptosis and its inhibition by
Tauroursodeoxycholic acid in Alpha-1 antitryspsin deficiency
S Miller, C Greene, C Taggart, C McElvaney, S O’Neill
Dept of Medicine, Respiratory Research Division, RCSI Education and Research
Centre, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin
9.36 4.4 The role of IL-17 in inflammation and remodelling in the post-transplant airway
DM Murphy, 1 IA Forrest, 1 C Ward, 1 PA Corris, 1 G Pritchard, 1 D Jones, 2 AJ Fisher, 1
JJ Egan, 3 TE Cawston, 2 JL Lordan 1
1. The Applied Immunobiology and Transplantation Research Group and
2. The Faculty of Medical Sciences, The University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
3. The Musculoskeletal Research Group, The Faculty of Medical Sciences,
The Irish Lung Transplant Programme, The Mater Hospital, Dublin
9.48 4.5 Mast cells and obstructive airways disease
M O’Mahony, A Mohd Thabit, H Misran, S O’Neill, N McElvaney
Respiratory Research, RCSI, Dublin
10.00 4.6 Viral infection and cytokine responses in exacerbations of COPD
TE McManus, 1,2 AM Marley, 1 F De Courcey, 3 N Baxter, 1 SN Christie, 2
HJ O’Neill, 2 JS Elborn, 3,4 PV Coyle, 2 JC Kidney 1
1. Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Mater Hospital
2. Regional Virus Laboratory, Royal Victoria Hospital
3. Respiratory Research Group, Institute of Clinical Science
4. Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Belfast City Hospital
10.12 4.7 Increased levels of Cysteinyl and Metalloproteases mediated by a TH 1 response
in COPD patients
P Geraghty
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
10.30 – 11.00 MORNING TEA/COFFEE — Exhibition Area
SPONSORED BY ASTRAZENECA
Session 5: Smoking / Lung Cancer (11.00 – 12.00)
— Robert Martin Suite
Chairpersons
Luke Clancy, St James Hospital
Richard Shepherd, Belfast City Hospital
11.00 5.1 A study to compare the efficiency of sterile talc, tetracycline and bleomycin as
sclerosing agents for medical pluerodesis in the treatment of malignant
pleural effusions
MT Henry, 1 B Ladd, 1 J Tuggey, 1 C Bowker, 1 AG Arnold 2
1. Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Leeds General Infirmary, UK
2. Castle Hill Hospital, East Yorkshire, UK
11.12 5.2 Diagnostic usefulness of central transbronchial needle aspirate
D O’Callaghan, D Breen, B Kent, S Nicholson, J Keane, F O’Connell
Dept of Respiratory Medicine, CResT Directorate, St James’s Hospital, Dublin
11.24 5.3 Diagnostic yield of fluoroscopic-guided transbronchial needle aspiration of
peripheral pulmonary lesions
D Breen, D O’Callaghan, B Kent, S Nicholson, J Keane, F O’Connell
Dept of Respiratory Medicine and Histopathology, St James’s Hospital, Dublin
11.36 5.4 The Irish workplace smoking ban: an analysis of the exposure levels in Dublin bars
M McCaffrey, 1 PG Goodman, 2 L Clancy 3
1. Dublin City Council; 2. Dublin Institute of Technology;
3. Research Institute for a Tobacco Free Society
11.48 5.5 Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Staging of nodal disease in patients with
non-small cell lung cancer
N Al-Sarraf, K Doddakula, R Aziz, E McGovern, V Young
Dept of Cardiothoracic Surgery, St James’s Hospital, Dublin
Irish Thoracic Society Lecture (12.00 – 13.00)
SPONSORED BY BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM
Guest Lecturer
Dr Frank Sullivan, Consultant Radiation Oncologist, Galway Regional Hospitals
‘From palliative to prospects of cure; early detection and new modalities in
treating lung cancer’
Prize Presentations (13.00 – 13.15)
Best Oral Presentation
ALLEN & HANDBURYS
Best Basic Poster
presented by Dr Colin Edwards of
BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM
Best Clinical Poster
presented by Dr Colin Edwards of
BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM
13.15 – 14.15 BUFFET LUNCH
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