CONGRESS GUIDE

ERS International Congress 2016
Platinum Room 1+2 Session 210 13:00 - 14:15
Assembly members' meeting: Assembly 4 Clinical physiology, sleep and pulmonary circulation
Incl. Groups 4.1 Clinical respiratory physiology, exercise and functional imaging, 4.2 Sleep and control of
breathing and 4.3 Pulmonary circulation and pulmonary vascular disease
Chairs : Maria Bonsignore (Palermo, Italy), Andrea Aliverti (Milan, Italy)
Room K Session 211 13:00 - 14:15
Assembly members' meeting: Assembly 11 Thoracic oncology
Incl. Groups 11.1 Lung cancer and 11.2 Pleural and mediastinal malignancies
Chairs : Nicolas Schönfeld (Berlin, Germany), Bogdan Dragos Grigoriu (Iasi, Romania)
Room ICC Capital Suite
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Session 212 13:00 - 14:15
Assembly members' meeting: Assembly 8 Thoracic surgery and transplantation
Incl. Groups 8.1 Thoracic surgery and 8.2 Transplantation
Chairs : Dragan R. Subotic (Belgrade, Republic of Serbia), Geert Verleden (Leuven, Belgium)
Room ICC Capital Suite 7 Session 213 13:00 - 14:15
Assembly members' meeting: Assembly 2 Respiratory intensive care
Incl. Groups 2.1 Acute critical care and 2.2 Non-invasive ventilatory support
Chairs : Paolo Navalesi (Vercelli, Italy), Stylianos Orfanos (Athens, Greece)
13:15-14:30
INDUSTRY PRACTICAL WORKSHOP SEE PAGE 1
ICC Auditorium Session 234 14:45 - 16:45
Grand round: GR2 Radiology
an interactive session
Aims : To promote a multidisciplinary approach for the diagnosis and treatment of lung disease. At the end of this session, participants
will be able to give the best diagnostic strategy based on the clinical examination and radiological findings in different situations. ERS has
organised this session in conjunction with ESR/ESTI.
Tag(s) : Clinical
Chairs : Dominique Valeyre (Paris, France), Venerino Poletti (Forlì, Italy)
DETAILED PROGRAMME
SUNDAY 04 SEPTEMBER, 2016
14:45
15:15
15:45
Time as the fourth dimension of radiology: a patient with diffuse lung disease (interstitial lung disease)
Sara Piciucchi (Forlì, Italy)
Nodular lung disease
Cornelia Schaefer-Prokop (Amersfoort, Netherlands)
A patient with dyspnoea
Heinrike Wilkens (Homburg/Saar, Germany)
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Pneumonia and fever: pulmonary infection
Claus Peter Heussel (Heidelberg, Germany)
Room E Session 235 14:45 - 16:45
Hot topics: Is sleep apnoea causing cancer?
the evidence, limitations, and clinical perspectives
Aims : The aim of this hot topic session is to update the audience in terms of our current knowledge regarding the potential relationship
between sleep apnoea and cancer. Recent data from animal models of both intermittent hypoxia and sleep fragmentation suggest that these
characteristics of obstructive sleep apnoea enhance tumour growth and metastasis. Recent studies in general populations and in patients
with suspected sleep apnoea also suggest there is an association between cancer incidence/mortality and sleep apnoea, although some
studies did not observe a positive relationship. The current evidence regarding this novel and emergent topic has some limitations: data
from animal models cannot be directly translated to humans and observational studies only provide indirect evidence. This hot topic
session will present the current available evidence and will focus on its limitations. Areas that require further research, and their potential
clinical implications, will be described.
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