Research highlights from the 2018 ERS International Congress: interstitial lung diseases

Tiago M Alfaro; Catharina C Moor; Veronica Alfieri; Florence Jeny; Michael Kreuter; Marlies S Wijsenbeek; Elisabetta A Renzoni; Elena Bargagli; Hilario Nunes; Paolo Spagnolo; Francesco Bonella; Maria Molina-Molina; Katerina Antoniou; Venerino Poletti

doi:10.1183/23120541.00215-2018

Research highlights from the 2018 ERS International Congress: interstitial lung diseases

ERJ Open Res. 2019 Feb 18;5(1):00215-2018. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00215-2018. eCollection 2019 Feb.

Authors

Tiago M Alfaro¹, Catharina C Moor², Veronica Alfieri³, Florence Jeny^{4

5}, Michael Kreuter⁶, Marlies S Wijsenbeek², Elisabetta A Renzoni^{7

8

9}, Elena Bargagli¹⁰, Hilario Nunes^{4

5}, Paolo Spagnolo¹¹, Francesco Bonella¹², Maria Molina-Molina^{13

14

15}, Katerina Antoniou¹⁶, Venerino Poletti^{17

18}

Affiliations

¹ Unit of Respiratory Medicine A, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
² Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Erasmus Medical Center, University Hospital Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
³ Respiratory Disease and Lung Function Unit, Dept of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Parma, Italy.
⁴ AP-HP, Pneumology Dept, Avicenne Hospital, Centre de Référence des Maladies Pulmonaires Rares, Bobigny, France.
⁵ Paris 13 University, EA2363, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Bobigny, France.
⁶ Center for Interstitial and Rare Lung Diseases, Pneumology and Respiratory Critical Care Medicine, Thoraxklinik, University of Heidelberg and Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg, Member of the German Center for Lung Research, Heidelberg, Germany.
⁷ Interstitial Lung Disease Unit, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK.
⁸ NIHR Clinical Research Facility, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK.
⁹ Fibrosis Research Group, Inflammation Repair and Development Section, Imperial College London, London, UK.
¹⁰ Section of Respiratory Diseases and Lung Transplantation, Dept of Clinical Medicine and Neurosciences, Siena University Hospital, Siena, Italy.
¹¹ Section of Respiratory Diseases, Dept of Cardiac, Thoracic, Vascular Sciences and Public Health, University of Padova, Padua, Italy.
¹² Interstitial and Rare Lung Disease Unit, Dept of Pulmonary Medicine, University Hospital - Ruhrlandklinik, Essen, Germany.
¹³ Dept of Pneumology, Bellvitge University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain.
¹⁴ Pneumology Research Group, IDIBELL, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
¹⁵ Research Network in Respiratory Diseases (CIBERES), ISCIII, Madrid, Spain.
¹⁶ Dept of Thoracic Medicine, Heraklion University Hospital, Medical School, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece.
¹⁷ Dept of Diseases of the Thorax, Ospedale GB Morgagni, Forlì, Italy.
¹⁸ Dept of Respiratory Diseases and Allergy, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.

Abstract

This article reviews a selection of the scientific presentations on interstitial lung disease (ILD)/diffuse parenchymal lung disease (DPLD) that were made at the 2018 European Respiratory Society (ERS) International Congress in Paris. A number of advances in the epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis and treatment of these disorders were presented and discussed by clinicians and researchers. The research topics span over all four groups of ERS Assembly 12: Interstitial Lung Diseases (Group 12.01: Idiopathic interstitial pneumonias; Group 12.02: ILD/DPLD of known origin; Group 12.03: Sarcoidosis and other granulomatous ILD/DPLD; Group 12.04: Rare ILD/DPLD).

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