CONGRESS GUIDE

ERS International Congress 2016
Platinum Room 1+2 Session 47 14:00 - 17:30
Registration for this session is additional to the congress registration fee and is €140 on site, €125 standard or €95 for early bird
registration.
Postgraduate Course: PG14 Interventional pulmonology
Aims : Access educational materials here
To describe the major indications and therapeutic modalities in interventional pulmonology.
Track(s) : Intensive care
Tag(s) : Clinical
Target audience : Pulmonologist, Thoracic surgeon, Respiratory therapist, Respiratory physician, Clinician, Radiologist, Fellow,
Resident, Oncologist, Thoracic endoscopist
Chairs : Michela Bezzi (Brescia, Italy), Pallav L. Shah (London, United Kingdom)
DETAILED PROGRAMME
SATURDAY 03 SEPTEMBER, 2016
14:00
14:30
Central airway obstruction: laser, APC, stents and other techniques
Christophe Dooms (Leuven, Belgium)
Haemoptysis: the endoscopic options
Arschang Valipour (WIEN, Austria)
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15:00 Group assignment 130
15:30 Break 131
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16:30
Interventions for obstruction: endoscopic lung volume reduction/thermoplasty
Daniela Gompelmann (Heidelberg, Germany)
Solitary pulmonary nodules: approach options
Stefano Gasparini (Ancona, Italy)
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17:00 Group assignment 134
Platinum Room 3+4 Session 48 14:00 - 17:30
Registration for this session is additional to the congress registration fee and is €140 on site, €125 standard or €95 for early bird
registration.
Postgraduate Course: PG15 Muscle weakness and wasting in chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease
Assessment and treatment
Aims : Access educational materials here
To describe the clinical importance of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) muscle dysfunction, the risk factors, and the
underlying mechanisms; to discuss the potential relationships and differences between exercise capacity and physical activity in COPD
patients; to describe to what extent pulmonary rehabilitation and nutritional support may benefit patients with advanced COPD and severe
comorbidities such as poor muscle function and muscle loss; to explore the mechanisms that underlie the impairment of skeletal muscle
function and mass loss during acute exacerbations in COPD patients; and to describe the available strategies for treating acute
exacerbation-induced muscle dysfunction and loss.
Track(s) : Physiology
Tag(s) : Translational
Target audience : Allied health professional, Clinician, Educationalist, Engineer, Fellow, General practitioner, Junior member, Lung
function technician, Pharmaceutical industry representative, Physiologist, Physiotherapist, Pulmonologist, Researcher, Resident,
Respiratory physician, Respiratory therapist, Scientist, Student, Trainee
Chairs : Pierantonio Laveneziana (Paris, France), François Maltais (Quebec, Canada)
14:00
14:30
15:00
Clinical relevance of COPD muscle dysfunction and body composition alterations, and their risk factors
and underlying mechanisms
Esther Barreiro Portela (Barcelona, Spain)
Differences between exercise capacity and physical activity in COPD: from the lungs to the periphery
Roberto A. Rabinovich (Edinburgh, United Kingdom)
Pulmonary rehabilitation and nutritional support in COPD patients with altered body composition and
poor exercise capacity
Ioannis Vogiatzis (Athens, Greece)
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15:30 Break 138
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