ERS International Congress 2021: highlights from the Interstitial Lung Diseases Assembly

Sabina A Guler; Sara Cuevas-Ocaña; Mouhamad Nasser; Wim A Wuyts; Marlies S Wijsenbeek; Antoine Froidure; Elena Bargagli; Elisabetta A Renzoni; Marcel Veltkamp; Paolo Spagnolo; Hilario Nunes; Cormac McCarthy; Maria Molina-Molina; Francesco Bonella; Venerino Poletti; Michael Kreuter; Katerina M Antoniou; Catharina C Moor

doi:10.1183/23120541.00640-2021

ERS International Congress 2021: highlights from the Interstitial Lung Diseases Assembly

ERJ Open Res. 2022 May 23;8(2):00640-2021. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00640-2021. eCollection 2022 Apr.

Authors

Sabina A Guler¹, Sara Cuevas-Ocaña², Mouhamad Nasser³, Wim A Wuyts⁴, Marlies S Wijsenbeek⁵, Antoine Froidure⁶, Elena Bargagli⁷, Elisabetta A Renzoni⁸, Marcel Veltkamp^{9

10}, Paolo Spagnolo¹¹, Hilario Nunes¹², Cormac McCarthy¹³, Maria Molina-Molina¹⁴, Francesco Bonella¹⁵, Venerino Poletti¹⁶, Michael Kreuter¹⁷, Katerina M Antoniou¹⁸, Catharina C Moor⁵

Affiliations

¹ Dept of Pulmonary Medicine, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
² Nottingham Biodiscovery Institute, School of Medicine, University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham, UK.
³ Dept of Respiratory Medicine, National Reference Center for Rare Pulmonary Diseases, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, France.
⁴ Unit for Interstitial Lung Disease, Dept of Respiratory Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
⁵ Center for Interstitial Lung Diseases and Sarcoidosis, Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Erasmus MC-University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
⁶ Service de Pneumologie, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc and Institut de Recherche Expérimentale, UCLouvain, Brussels, Belgium.
⁷ Dept of Medical Sciences, Surgery and Neurosciences, Respiratory Medicine, Siena University, Siena, Italy.
⁸ Interstitial Lung Disease Unit, Royal Brompton and Harefield (Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust), Margaret Turner Warwick Centre for Fibrosing Lung Diseases, NHLI, Imperial College, London, UK.
⁹ Interstitial Lung Diseases Centre of Excellence, St Antonius Hospital, Nieuwegein, The Netherlands.
¹⁰ Division of Heart and Lungs, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
¹¹ Respiratory Disease Unit, Dept of Cardiac, Thoracic, Vascular Sciences and Public Health, University of Padova, Padua, Italy.
¹² Service de Pneumologie, Centre de Référence des Maladies Pulmonaires Rares, Hôpital Avicenne, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, Bobigny, France.
¹³ UCD School of Medicine, Education and Research Centre, St Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland.
¹⁴ Dept of Pneumology, Unit of Interstitial Lung Diseases, University Hospital of Bellvitge Institute for Biomedical Research (IDIBELL), Barcelona, Spain.
¹⁵ Center for Interstitial and Rare Lung Diseases, Ruhrlandklinik University Hospital, Duisburg-Essen University, Essen, Germany.
¹⁶ Dipartimento Malattie dell'Apparato Respiratorio e del Torace Ospedale GB Morgagni-Forlí (FC)/University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
¹⁷ Center for Interstitial and Rare Lung Diseases, and Interdisciplinary Center for Sarcoidosis, Pneumology, Thoraxklinik, University Hospital Heidelberg and German Center for Lung Research, Heidelberg, Germany.
¹⁸ Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Pneumonology Laboratory, Dept of Respiratory Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Crete, Crete, Greece.

Abstract

This article provides an overview of scientific highlights in the field of interstitial lung disease (ILD), presented at the virtual European Respiratory Society Congress 2021. A broad range of topics was discussed this year, ranging from translational and genetic aspects to novel innovations with the potential to improve the patient pathway. Early Career Members summarise a selection of interesting findings from different congress sessions, together with the leadership of Assembly 12 - Interstitial Lung Disease.