CONGRESS GUIDE

ERS-SPLF Joint Session
Saturday 3 September, 2016
Room A 13:00–17:30
GAIN NEW SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE IN your own language
FROM DEDICATED SESSIONS IN FRENCH.
Note that the presentations will be conducted in French with dual projection of slides in French and English.
Target audience
Clinicians
Aims
The aim of this session is to provide an updated overview of
new therapeutics in various fields of respiratory medicine.
Future drugs and strategies that might develop within
the next 5 years will also be presented and discussed by
internationally recognised experts.
13:00–15:00 ERS/French Programme I
Innovative treatments and new concepts in
respiratory medicine: the future looks bright
indeed!
Chairs: Elisabeth H.D. Bel (Netherlands), Philippe Delaval
(France)
13:00 Lung reduction coil treatment in severe emphysema
Deslee Gaëtan (France)
13:30 Personalised medicine and COPD: where are we now?
Roche Nicolas (France)
14:00 In search of asthma fngerprints
Chung Kian Fan (United Kingdom)
14:30 Obesity hypoventilation: from pathophysiology to
treatment
Janssens Jean-Paul (Switzerland)
Aims
This session will focus on new diagnostic tools and
therapeutic approaches that will help pulmonologists to
treat or prevent respiratory disorders. It will also cover
therapeutic aspects in pulmonary hypertension and
intensive care medicine.
15:30–17:30 ERS/French Programme II
Guidelines, new diagnostic and therapeutic tools
to help pulmonologists: all the reasons why we
cannot ignore them anymore
Chairs: François Chabot (France), Guy F Joos (Belgium)
15:30 ERS/ESC European guidelines for the diagnosis and
treatment of pulmonary hypertension
Humbert Marc (France)
16:00 Lung transfer of Nitric Oxide (DLNO): from practical
guidelines to clinical applications
Dinh-Xuan Anh Tuan (France)
16:30 Idiopathic pulmonary fbrosis: from early detection to
treatment
Cottin Vincent (France)
17:00 New perspectives in the treatment of MDR-TB
Migliori Giovanni Battista (Italy)