ERS International Congress, Madrid, 2019: highlights from the Paediatric Assembly

Raffaella Nenna; Monique Slaats; Refika Ersu; David Lo; Sejal Seglani; Claire Nissenbaum; Alex R Horsley; Marijke Proesmans; Laura Petrarca; Emma Williams; Theodore Dassios; Cristina Ardura-Garcia; Liesbeth Duijts; Honorata Marczak; Deborah Snijders; Robbert Rottier; Cho-Ming Chao; Marielle W Pijnenburg; Jonathan Grigg

doi:10.1183/23120541.00063-2020

ERS International Congress, Madrid, 2019: highlights from the Paediatric Assembly

ERJ Open Res. 2020 Jul 20;6(2):00063-2020. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00063-2020. eCollection 2020 Apr.

Authors

Raffaella Nenna¹, Monique Slaats², Refika Ersu³, David Lo^{4

5}, Sejal Seglani⁶, Claire Nissenbaum^{7

8}, Alex R Horsley^{7

8}, Marijke Proesmans⁹, Laura Petrarca¹, Emma Williams¹⁰, Theodore Dassios¹⁰, Cristina Ardura-Garcia¹¹, Liesbeth Duijts¹², Honorata Marczak¹³, Deborah Snijders¹⁴, Robbert Rottier^{15

16}, Cho-Ming Chao^{17

18}, Marielle W Pijnenburg¹², Jonathan Grigg¹⁹

Affiliations

¹ Maternal-Infantile and Urological Science Dept, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
² Dept of Paediatric Medicine, Antwerp University Hospital, Edegem, Belgium.
³ Dept of Paediatric Pulmonology, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Canada.
⁴ Dept of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, University Hospitals of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
⁵ Dept of Respiratory Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK.
⁶ Inflammation, Repair and Development Section, National Heart and Lung Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College, London, UK.
⁷ University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
⁸ Manchester University Foundation NHS Trust, Manchester, UK.
⁹ Dept of Pediatrics, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
¹⁰ Women and Children's Health, School of Life Course Sciences, Faculty of Life Sciences and Medicine, King's College London, London, UK.
¹¹ Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
¹² Erasmus MC-Sophia, University Medical Centre Rotterdam, Dept of Paediatrics, Division of Paediatric Pulmonology and Allergology, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
¹³ Dept of Paediatric Pneumonology and Allergy, Medical University of Warsaw, Warszaw, Poland.
¹⁴ Dipartimento Salute della Donna e del Bambino, Università degli Studi di Padova, Padua, Italy.
¹⁵ Dept of Pediatric Surgery, Erasmus Medical Center-Sophia Children's Hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
¹⁶ Dept of Cell Biology, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
¹⁷ Cardio-Pulmonary Institute, German Center for Lung Research, Department of Internal Medicine II, Universities of Gießen and Marburg Lung Center, Gießen, Germany.
¹⁸ University Children's Hospital Gießen, Dept of General Pediatrics and Neonatology, Justus-Liebig-University, Gießen, Germany.
¹⁹ Centre for Paediatrics, Queen Mary University London, London, UK.

Abstract

In this article, the Group Chairs and the Early Career Members of the Paediatric Assembly of the European Respiratory Society (ERS) highlight some of the most interesting findings in the field of paediatrics presented at the 2019 ERS International Congress, which was held in Madrid, Spain. The main findings from each group are summarised at the end of each chapter.