ERS International Congress 2023: highlights from the Paediatrics Assembly

Susanne J H Vijverberg; Asterios Kampouras; Halime Nayir Büyükşahin; Heidi Makrinioti; Laura Petrarca; Mehtap Schmidt; Leonie D Schreck; Ruth M Urbantat; Nicole Beydon; Myrofora Goutaki; Anna Lavizzari; Marijke Proesmans; Dirk Schramm; Mirjam Stahl; Angela Zacharasiewicz; Alexander Moeller; Marielle W Pijnenburg

doi:10.1183/23120541.00853-2023

ERS International Congress 2023: highlights from the Paediatrics Assembly

ERJ Open Res. 2024 Feb 26;10(1):00853-2023. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00853-2023. eCollection 2024 Jan.

Authors

Susanne J H Vijverberg^{1

2}, Asterios Kampouras³, Halime Nayir Büyükşahin⁴, Heidi Makrinioti⁵, Laura Petrarca^{6

7}, Mehtap Schmidt⁸, Leonie D Schreck^{9

10}, Ruth M Urbantat^{11

12

13}, Nicole Beydon^{14

15}, Myrofora Goutaki^{9

16}, Anna Lavizzari¹⁷, Marijke Proesmans¹⁸, Dirk Schramm¹⁹, Mirjam Stahl^{11

12

13}, Angela Zacharasiewicz⁸, Alexander Moeller²⁰, Marielle W Pijnenburg²¹

Affiliations

¹ Pulmonary Medicine, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
² Pediatric Pulmonology, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
³ Paediatric Pulmonology Department, 424 General Military Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece.
⁴ Division of Pulmonology, Department of Paediatrics, Mardin Training and Research Hospital, Mardin, Turkey.
⁵ Department of Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
⁶ Translational and Precision Medicine Department, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
⁷ Maternal Infantile and Urological Sciences Department, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
⁸ Department of Pediatrics, Teaching Hospital of the University of Vienna, Wilhelminen Hospital, Vienna, Austria.
⁹ Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
¹⁰ Graduate School for Health Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
¹¹ Department of Pediatric Respiratory Medicine, Immunology and Critical Care Medicine and Cystic Fibrosis Center, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany‌‌‌.
¹² German Center for Lung Research (DZL), associated partner site, Berlin, Germany.
¹³ Berlin Institute of Health at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
¹⁴ Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Unité Fonctionnelle de Physiologie - Explorations Fonctionnelles Respiratoires et du Sommeil, Hôpital Armand Trousseau, Paris, France.
¹⁵ INSERM, U 938, Centre de Recherche Saint Antoine, Hôpital Saint-Antoine, Paris, France.
¹⁶ Division of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine and Allergology, Department of Paediatrics, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
¹⁷ Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy.
¹⁸ Division of Woman and Child, Department of Pediatrics, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
¹⁹ Department of General Pediatrics, Neonatology and Pediatric Cardiology, Medical Faculty, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany.
²⁰ Department of Paediatric Pulmonology, University Children's Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
²¹ Department of Paediatrics, Division of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine and Allergology, Erasmus MC - Sophia Children's Hospital, University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

Abstract

Respiratory health in children is essential for general wellbeing and healthy development in the short and long term. It is well known that many respiratory diseases in adulthood have their origins in early life, and therefore research on prevention of respiratory diseases and management of children with respiratory diseases will benefit patients during the full life course. Scientific and clinical advances in the field of respiratory health are moving at a fast pace. This article summarises some of the highlights in paediatric respiratory medicine presented at the hybrid European Respiratory Society (ERS) International Congress 2023 which took place in Milan (Italy). Selected sessions are summarised by Early Career Members of the Paediatrics Assembly (Assembly 7) under the supervision of senior ERS officers, and cover a wide range of research areas in children, including respiratory physiology and sleep, asthma and allergy, cystic fibrosis, respiratory infection and immunology, neonatology and intensive care, respiratory epidemiology and bronchology.